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Subject: Re: Whats up with KCalc?
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On July 12, 2005 08:01 am, Igor Robul wrote:
> Parv wrote:
> >in message <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com>,
> >
> >
> >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(?).
>
> I have checked KCalc on Mandrake Linux 10.1 (different version of KDE)
> and it gives correct result.

I just checked it on FreeBSD 5.4 and it gives the correct answer. KCalc 1.8 
compiled from  port.

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