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Bug 348765 - User Functions aren't explained adequately
User Functions aren't explained adequately
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309210
Product: gnome-calculator
Classification: Core
Component: docs
5.7.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Breda McColgan
Breda McColgan
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-26 10:31 UTC by Casey
Modified: 2006-09-06 15:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14



Description Casey 2006-07-26 10:31:25 UTC
Documentation 
Section: (Usage) 3.5.11. To Use Functions
3. Click on the Value field, then enter the new value. Use the keyboard shortcuts to invoke a Calculator button. For example, enter 90K to calculate sine(90).

Correct version:
A couple of simple working examples. A Farenheit to Celcius conversion example might be nice, if possible. Can the function use the number already on the display or is it not really a function so it can only hold a constant?

Other information:
Even though I'm not using the most recent version, I didn't see a bug report in bugzilla and I couldn't find the change in the changelog so I'm posting this bug. The help file says you should be able to create a function, that takes the sin of 90 degrees, by entering 90K in the value field of the Edit Functions dialog box. It doesn't seem to work. Only simple expressions such as 2+3*4=  gave results. It took a lot of trial and error to figure out how to get it to give me anything but a malformed function error. While the function syntax seems obvious in hindsight, I kept trying various things like standard spreadsheet notation =2+3*4 and plain old 2+3*4  Is there any way to include the display value so that the user functions are actually functions and not just constant expressions? I'm running Ubuntu 6.06
Comment 1 Rich Burridge 2006-09-06 15:28:35 UTC
Bug #309210 is the "fix gcalctool documentation" bug. I've added your
comments to that and I'm closing this one out as a duplicate of that.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309210 ***