The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

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You can use text expressions to generate partial or complete arithmetic or logical expressions. The macro processor resolves text expressions before it evaluates the arithmetic or logical expressions.

The macro facility is a string handling facility. However, in specific situations, the macro processor can evaluate operands that represent numbers as numeric values. When the macro processor ...