Hi again,
Ok i'll take it as 3 * sqrt(xxx) then, no problem.
But another problem springs up. If you look at the attachment, i have numbered the outside parens according to the count of open and close parens. For example, if we had:
y=(a+2)
then we go from left to right, the first paren is open so we count 0+1=1.
The next paren is a close, so we count 1-1=0. Since we got zero when we reached the end of the expression, the paren open and close counts match, so there are just as many opens as closes, and that means it is syntactically correct with respect to the paren sets.
If on the other hand we get a number that is not zero (such as 1,2,3, or -1, -2, -3) then the paren's are not correct as there is either one more open than close or one more close than open.
In the attachment you can see we end up with +1 which means that there is one more open than close, so there is something wrong with the number of parens as well. One of those opens does not belong or else there is a missing close paren. Can you figure out which it is?
See attachment where the counts are shown for each outside open and close paren. The pic is black and white except for the paren counts which are shown in blue.
BTW did you see the Spock Curve yet?