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  1. Mar 2nd, 2009, 09:55 AM #1
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    What is this character?

    i was testing my string calculator and found this
    3 + 4 * 2 / ( 1 − 5 ) ^ 2 ^ 3
    here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting_yard_algorithm

    the formula failed in the calculator and it was because of this − , which is not this - character. what is it?


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            Dim d As Double = 3 + 4 * 2 / ( 1 − 5 ) ^ 2 ^ 3 'bad
        Dim d As Double = 3 + 4 * 2 / (1 - 5) ^ 2 ^ 3 'good
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    Re: What is this character?

    See Dash.
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  3. Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:39 AM #3
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    Re: What is this character?

    ok, that helped, but the unicode character decimal value is 8722, which i didn't see listed.

    edit - is it the minus sign?
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  4. Mar 2nd, 2009, 06:56 PM #4
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    Re: What is this character?

    Looks like it is, character U+2212 (minus sign) has the decimal value 8722.
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