jon_leonard
Dec 30, 2011 22:21
I was doing something related to Fermat primes, and noticed that my TI-84's interpretation of 2^2^5+1 isn't 4294967297 as I'd expect (famously divisible by 641), but rather 1025: It's interpreting it as ((2^2)^5)+1. How'd they get the order of operations wrong there?
ti84,
math,
calculator