arithmetic functions such as sqrt fails

[lrgarrett]

According to the man page for ksh the following arithmetic functions are built in:
abs acos acosh asin asinh atan atan2 atanh cbrt copysign cos cosh erf erfc exp exp2 expm1 fabs fdim finite
floor fma fmax fmod hypot ilogb int isinf isnan lgamma log log2 logb nearbyint nextafter nexttoward pow
remainder rint round sin sinh sqrt tan tanh tgamma trunc

However when I try to use the function such as:
print $(( sqrt(25) ))
I get the error message
/bin/ksh: sqrt(25) : unknown function

I tried the same command on other distributions of ksh93, RH, Fedora, AIX and I received the correct answer of 5.

[finifly (fini-fly)]

I can confirm this bug. I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 and I get the same 'unknown function' error when I tried using exp and log. I tried sin and cos too to see if it was a syntax error on my part, but they also failed.

[Laurent FARHI (lrcom)]

This bug has been fixed with ksh version M 93t released on 2008-11-04.
(http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/ast-ksh.2008-11-04.linux.i386.tgz)

[finifly (fini-fly)]

I did a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10 and the math functions work perfectly. So it looks like it might be isolated to 8.04.

[lrgarrett (larry-garrett)]

Thanks...I switched for Fedora Core 10 a while back and the math
functions worked.

Larry Garrett
Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem
Horace

finifly wrote:
> I did a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10 and the math functions work
> perfectly. So it looks like it might be isolated to 8.04.
>
>

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[finifly (fini-fly)]

It looks like this problem is not isolated to 8.04, because I'm getting the same error on 8.10 but a different install. I will have to double check to see if it is working on the other machine. But it is definitely not working on a fresh install of 8.10 now.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Is this still happening on Kubuntu 11.10?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ksh (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]