>>>>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:16:26 +0200, Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org> said:

    Justus> "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
    >> On Wednesday, 25 Sep 2019 at 11:50, Justus Winter wrote:
    >>> I noticed a operator associativity problem when evaluating formulas in
    >>> tables.  To reproduce, enter:
    >>> 
    >>> | :=6/2*3 |
    >>> 
    >>> And evaluate the formula.  This results in:
    >>> 
    >>> | 1 |
    >>> #+TBLFM: @1$1=6/2*3
    >> 
    >> Yes, this is a property (feature, ?) of Emacs Calc.

    Justus> Wow!  Re-reading the org-mode documentation I see that it is prominently
    Justus> mentioned indeed, and that it is an precedence thing, not an
    Justus> associativity one.

See 'calc-multiplication-has-precedence'

Robert