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Subject: Re: Whats up with KCalc?
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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.