gnome-calculator not giving expected results: 2e-2 is not 0.02 ...
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gcalctool (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Robert Ancell | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Robert Ancell |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gcalctool
expressions like 4e<number> seem to work correcty when <number> is a positive integer,
e.g. +4. Wrong results are presented when <number> is a negative integer, e.g. -2.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 16 18:48:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gcalctool
Package: gcalctool 5.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gcalctool
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:2556): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(gnome-
Changed in gcalctool (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
tags: |
added: verification-needed removed: verification-done |
Changed in gcalctool (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
assignee: | nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) |
Thanks for the report and working to make ubuntu better! However, I believe this is invalid since 2e-2 is 0.02
2e-2 = 2*10^-2 = 2*.01 = .02