Package: wcalc Version: 2.5-2 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
'wcalc' mixes the terms "engineering notation" and "scientific notation", even though the only notation available is "scientific". The option to enable scientific notation is called "engineering" in the configuration file and the manual, and the documentation claims that it enables engineering notation when it does not. This is confusing, and I think that all references to "engineering notation" should be replaced with "scientific notation", and the configuration option deprecated and renamed. Even better, an actual engineering notation could be implemented, which is why I originally tried to enable this feature! The difference between "engineering" and "scientific" notation can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_notation In short: It's like scientific but the exponents must be divisible by three. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages wcalc depends on: ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libgmp10 2:6.0.0+dfsg-7 ii libmpfr4 3.1.3-1 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3 wcalc recommends no packages. wcalc suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
