Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After you compute your answer copy and paste it into a text editor 1 + 1 = 2.000444089209850062616169453 2 + 2 = 4.000888178419700125232338905 3 + 3 = 6 KCalc on my SuSE 9.3 PIII notebook is doing the same thing

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-13 Thread John Oxley
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:13:24AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... this thing is WAY OFF... if you type in 85.49 and then hit the + key the thing automatically jumps to 85.48488409230252727866172791!!! My SuSE box shows 85.49

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Oxley wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:13:24AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... this thing is WAY OFF... if you type in 85.49 and then hit the + key the thing automatically jumps to 85.48488409230252727866172791!!! My

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-13 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
Nikolas Britton (nikolas.britton) writes: Umm help me out... KCalc says: 44 + 1 = 45 and that: 45 + 1 = 46.00710542735760100185871124 A possible workaround would be to enable decimal precision in: Settings - Configure KCalc A bug has been filed with the KDE team. /mich

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-13 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
Michael L. Hostbaek (mich) writes: A possible workaround would be to enable decimal precision in: Settings - Configure KCalc Actually, this only fixes the display (copy-pasting the number to fx. a text-editor, will still show the wrong number). There is no known workaround at this moment.

Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Umm help me out... KCalc says: 44 + 1 = 45 and that: 45 + 1 = 46.00710542735760100185871124 Last time I checked 45 + 1 = 46, but I haven't kept my math skills up to date so I could be wrong. I'm trying to check the math for a probe I'm sending to a planet in the alpha centauri

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Nikolas Britton thusly... KCalc says: 44 + 1 = 45 and that: 45 + 1 = 46.00710542735760100185871124 Last time I checked 45 + 1 = 46, but I haven't kept my math skills up to date so I could be wrong. Well, did you try any other calculating

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Igor Robul
Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Well, did you try any other calculating software? grpn, perl, and dc gave me 46(.0...) even after asking for a result upto 20 digits. Here is a naive guess: kcalc stores the number in such a way that it causes the abnormality as above(?). I

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Ean Kingston
On July 12, 2005 08:01 am, Igor Robul wrote: Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Well, did you try any other calculating software? grpn, perl, and dc gave me 46(.0...) even after asking for a result upto 20 digits. Here is a naive guess: kcalc stores the number in such a way

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread nbco
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 14:41, Ean Kingston wrote: On July 12, 2005 08:01 am, Igor Robul wrote: Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Well, did you try any other calculating software? grpn, perl, and dc gave me 46(.0...) even after asking for a result upto 20 digits.

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Igor Robul
Ean Kingston wrote: I just checked it on FreeBSD 5.4 and it gives the correct answer. KCalc 1.8 compiled from port. 5.4-RELEASE? or 5-STABLE? on 5-STABLE with KCalc 1.8.1 (KDE 3.4.1) it gives correct results up to 44+1 than it gives wrong results with 45+1, 46+1, 47+1 etc. Even if I

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Ean Kingston
On July 12, 2005 10:23 am, Igor Robul wrote: Ean Kingston wrote: I just checked it on FreeBSD 5.4 and it gives the correct answer. KCalc 1.8 compiled from port. 5.4-RELEASE? or 5-STABLE? on 5-STABLE with KCalc 1.8.1 (KDE 3.4.1) it gives correct results up to 44+1 than it gives wrong

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
After you compute your answer copy and paste it into a text editor 1 + 1 = 2.000444089209850062616169453 2 + 2 = 4.000888178419700125232338905 3 + 3 = 3 KCalc on my SuSE 9.3 PIII notebook is doing the same thing (sorta): KCalc 1.8 (Using KDE 3.4.0 Level b SUSE 9.3) build

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After you compute your answer copy and paste it into a text editor 1 + 1 = 2.000444089209850062616169453 2 + 2 = 4.000888178419700125232338905 3 + 3 = 3 lmao, sorry that should have been 3 + 3 = 6... just a small

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After you compute your answer copy and paste it into a text editor 1 + 1 = 2.000444089209850062616169453 2 + 2 = 4.000888178419700125232338905 3 + 3 = 3 lmao, sorry that