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Bug 402476 - Exponential values cannot be entered correctly
Exponential values cannot be entered correctly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 367712
Product: gnome-calculator
Classification: Core
Component: general
5.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Rich Burridge
Rich Burridge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-30 15:59 UTC by Sven Arvidsson
Modified: 2007-01-31 17:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Sven Arvidsson 2007-01-30 15:59:16 UTC 
This bug was reported to the Debian BTS.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395490

"According to the manual, entering something like 12 Exp 8 +/- should
produce that number: 0.00000012.

Now, if I try that same example, by keying in that stuff: 12 Exp 8
+/-, the display will read this: -(12e8).

If I want to make sure that the result is expected I continue keying
in: *1, so that the display reads this: -(12e8)x1 (multiply by one);

and when I ask the result to be displayed (keying in '=') I get
-1.2e+9 ---which is NOT the expected result.


The example, 12 Exp 8 +/- +/-, which should give -1.2e-7, that is
-0.00000012 does not work either."
Comment 1 Rich Burridge 2007-01-31 17:58:38 UTC 
The online documentation for this reflects the way that
exponential values are entered in non-arithmetic precedence
mode. This has now been fixed in gcalctool for GNOME 2.17/18.
See bug #367712 for more details.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 367712 ***