Ubuntu
gcalctool package

Calculator doesn't operate as expected

Bug #298721 reported by Nick Glynn on 2008-11-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #328094: Make addition and subtraction of percentages take percentage of value on left-hand side. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gcalctool (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gcalctool

Using the calculator to perform a simple sum (e.g. 16995 - 17.5%) I punch in the required numbers in that manner and instead it performs 16995 - (17.5 / 100)

I know it seems trivial to a number of computer users that this would be obvious but my father was confused by this behaviour as by offering a single line in which to enter operations, the percentage function does NOT operate as expected.
He expected:
16995 - (16995*(17.5 / 100) )

Trivial I know, but hey - It's a usability bug in my opinion. Mark as you see fit :D

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gcalctool
Package: gcalctool 5.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gcalctool
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-8-generic i686

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Nick Glynn (exosyst) wrote on 2008-11-16:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (21.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (771 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-11-17:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.