> On Jan 8, 2020, at 4:54 PM, George N. White III <gnw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am running the latest version of Mojave (10.14.6) on a fairly new iMac. >> Using the Scientific view in the Calculator app, I tried to evaluate exp(-1) >> and it said "Not a number". I tried several other negative values and none >> worked, even though they certainly should. When I tried taking 10 to the -1 >> power, I got the correct result (0.1), but for some reason it has a problem >> raising "e" (the base for natural logarithms) to a negative power. >> > > I've encountered similar issues when the "minus" sign was some Unicode "dash" > supplied by an overly helpful editor like MacOS textedit. Living in Canada, > I have found that systems sometimes produce the look-alike characters when > trying to write in the French language.
Great catch. Check your Keyboard preference panel for unexpected key translations. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com
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