Incorrect value when using implicit multiplication

[robinrodricks]

Ok: math.eval("10000 / 10000") = 1

Fails:
math.eval("thousand = 1000");
math.eval("10 thousand / 10 thousand") = 1e+6... Huh??

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or its a bug in math.js...

[robinrodricks]

What worked was this:

(10*1000) / (10*1000) = 1 .. Ok.

But I always thought multiplication had a higher precedence than division?

[josdejong]

As far as I know, in all math applications multiplication and division have the same precedence (i.e. 4/2*2 results in 4 and not 1). How implicit multiplication is treated differs per application, in mathjs is has the same precedence as explicit multiplication.

Update: fixed a typo in the example I gave

[robinrodricks]

Oh. I need some way to fix this as it appears to be a bug, like in the example I provided.

[josdejong]

This behavior is hardcoded in the expression parser, it's not configurable or something.

There are discussions though to rethink the behavior of implicit multiplication, see #792.

[robinrodricks]

Thank you for linking me to the older issue. Hope it's implemented someday.

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[josdejong]

👍 let's close this issue and continue any discussion in #792.