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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:44:35 -0400
From:      Parv <parv@pair.com>
To:        Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Whats up with KCalc?
Message-ID:  <20050712104435.GA1104@holestein.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com>

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in message <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1@mail.gmail.com>,
wrote Nikolas Britton thusly...
>
> KCalc says:
> 44 + 1 = 45 and that:
> 45 + 1 = 46.00000000000000710542735760100185871124
> 
> Last time I checked 45 + 1 = 46, but I haven't kept my math skills up
> to date so I could be wrong.

Well, did you try any other calculating software?  grpn, perl, and
dc gave me 46(.00000...) even after asking for a result upto 20
digits.

Here is a naive guess: kcalc stores the number in such a way that it
causes the abnormality as above(?).


  - Parv

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