Timeline for Calculator Bomb
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| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:20 | vote | accept | Excited Raichu | ||
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:20 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | Nice! I had a different answer but this is definitely valid. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:18 | history | edited | Gareth McCaughan♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:04 | comment | added | PotatoLatte | @ExcitedRaichu I think he means $196+4^2$ | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:00 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | It doesn't particularly matter what standard mathematical notation means -- but it does matter what this sort of calculator actually does. And what they do is what I said :-). | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:59 | comment | added | PotatoLatte | @ExcitedRaichu PEMDAS does exponents before addition | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:59 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | (I just tried exactly my sequence of keystrokes using the calculator Microsoft supply with Windows 10, and got the required result.) | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | Huh. I'll reword the question to include that. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | Really? Not on any calculator I've used. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:57 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | and 2. It wouldn't be possible to add 4^2 at the end, because the ^2 would square the entire thing, getting a very large number. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:57 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | I did. Have I misunderstood something? | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:56 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | 1. It is stated that you need to hit the = sign at the end. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:54 | history | answered | Gareth McCaughan♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |