I think my newness is showing. Considering your explanation, I realize
that tools in the GNU/Linux community are more explicit and probably
more powerful than I am accustomed to. It would not have occurred to me
to use parenthesis for -6 squared.
To the question about (6+5)^2, I would have
your welcome, and take care
** Changed in: gcalctool (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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gcalctool squared negative number gives a negative result
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327890
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To answer your question literally: ( - 6 ) square equal
That gives 36
I looked at windows calc, and it suffers from the same problem, just in
different ways. If I hit: 6 + 5 square equal and that gives 31. What
if I wanted (6+5)^2 and not 6+5^2? I checked my own, 10 year old hand
held
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gcalctool
-(6)^2 should evaluate to -36. Its (-6)^2 that evaluates to 36.
Now, gcalc is evaluating the expression correctly, but maybe you could argue
that the UI is non intuitive. You hit 6, then hit the change polarity button,
then hit the square button. Maybe its reasonable to expect gcalc to enter
I believe that it is a UI problem then, because I was simply following a
similar method that I would use with Windows Calc. Maybe that is not
the greatest excuse or comparison, but that's what led me to file this
report.
If the keys are shortcut keys, then I expect them to alter the input in
a
