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[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

you could easily make this more straightforward by putting parentheses around 8÷2

But that would be a different expression with a different answer (16 rather than 1). This is the mistake made by the programmer of the e-calc - treats it as though there's extra brackets there when there isn't.

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