Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:13:24 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> Cc: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whats up with KCalc? Message-ID: <ef10de9a05071223136515c381@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05071213443f407987@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com> <200507120941.12027.ean@hedron.org> <42D3D25A.9040107@speechpro.com> <200507121110.01535.ean@hedron.org> <ef10de9a05071213443f407987@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > After you compute your answer copy and paste it into a text editor >=20 > 1 + 1 =3D 2.000000000000000444089209850062616169453 > 2 + 2 =3D 4.000000000000000888178419700125232338905 > 3 + 3 =3D 6 >=20 > 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 with 96-bit (long double precision)" >=20 Ok... this thing is WAY OFF... if you type in 85.49 and then hit the + key the thing automatically jumps to 85.48999999999999488409230252727866172791!!! My SuSE box shows "85.49" but if you copy and paste the number into a text editor it shows 85.48999... too.
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