Had something really screwy happen today, had to do some math so I dropped
into my DQSD bar and typed;
2156737.51 - 16123.81
and it gives me the result;
2140613.67
WOW!
ok, so lets try
2156737.51 - 16123.83
gives me the result;
2140613.67
err thats just weird, how bout
21567
Hi Richard,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Had something really screwy happen today, had to do some math so I dropped
> into my DQSD bar and typed;
>
> 2156737.51 - 16123.81
>
> and it gives me the result;
>
> 2140613.67
> WOW!
That's how floating-point arithmetic works on most PCs.
I can
Kim,
Uhhh that doesnt sound right to me. I subtracted 3 different values from
another value and got the same result twice. Also two of the results are
flat out wrong.
I could understand if I had used some kind of hokey notation but its a
straight up math problem X-Y. When performed in a calculat
Another thing I notice with the new version is, as reported by Brain
Dunsworth in March, I can no longer paste (ctrl+V or the old trusty
ctrl+ins) into the taskbar. Already in the last day I've done it many
times to be frustrated and realise how much I do this. Is there a way to
get this worki
Hi Tom,
On Thu, 17 May 2007 23:08:08 +0100, you [Tom Corcoran] wrote:
}Note I got it after 2 clean installs on 2 different machines. anyone
}using this version successfully with the latest Firefox?
Sorry to have to tell you that I am having no problems with either
Firefox (ver 2.0.0.3) nor wit
Hi Richard,
> Uhhh that doesnt sound right to me. I subtracted 3 different values
> from another value and got the same result twice.
Oops, I didn't see your results were identical for the first two cases.
I tried it here;
2156737.51 - 16123.81 => 2140613.67
2156737.51 - 16123.83 => 214
Tom, Bill,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 23:08:08 +0100, you [Tom Corcoran] wrote:
>
> }Note I got it after 2 clean installs on 2 different machines. anyone
> }using this version successfully with the latest Firefox?
>
> Sorry to have to tell you that I am having no problems w
It's all about binary arithmetic. Spreadsheets have traditionally had this same
issue. There are workarounds for it, but there's a substantial performance
penalty and in most cases it's simply not enough to worry about. The number is
always only off by one bit at the limit of your precision.
>
If the binary arithmetic/floating point is a problem, use gg in the taskbar
before the equation to send it to the Google calculator which does behave like
a calculator:
In the taskbar: gg 2156737.51 - 16123.81
produces:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=&cat=&meta=&num=&ie=utf-8&q=2156737.51+
