Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:44:35 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Whats up with KCalc? Message-ID: <20050712104435.GA1104@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com>
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in message <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com>, wrote Nikolas Britton thusly... > > KCalc says: > 44 + 1 = 45 and that: > 45 + 1 = 46.00000000000000710542735760100185871124 > > 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 software? grpn, perl, and dc gave me 46(.00000...) 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(?). - Parv --
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