From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calc; calc-simplify-units not working as documented for trigometric functions Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:35:25 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87shvqondu.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467552957 9257 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2016 13:35:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 13:35:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 15:35:48 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bJhYq-0002bi-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:35:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJhYp-0002eG-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJhYk-0002e7-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJhYf-0004TX-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJhYf-0004TT-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bJhYd-0002Xe-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:35:35 +0200 Original-Received: from p57ace797.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.172.231.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:35:35 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by p57ace797.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:35:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57ace797.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dydmzjPZhUk+8Vx07aof8H4MNr0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205106 Archived-At: David Ongaro writes: > In Calc do > > 'sin(45 deg) > u s > > Result: 0.0137073546047 > Expected result: 0.707106781187 I'm confirming this bug on GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2016-06-19 I'd like to issue a proper bug-report for it and I'd like to reference David's mail in a reproducible way. Could somebody please tell me first how to reference a specific message from some (GNU) emacs-devel mailing list archive (preferably with Gnus)? > The actual result equals to sin(pi/4) in deg mode whereas the expected > result of "the sine of 45 degrees" is the one documented in > "info:Calc#Trigonometric and HyperbolicFunctions". Actually it is documented in (info "(calc) Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions") Thanks you Dieter > The same applies for other trigonometric functions and for other values > of 45 or the 'deg' unit (i.e. 'rad or 'grad'). > > > > Emacs : GNU Emacs 25.0.94.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0, NS > appkit-1404.47 Version 10.11.5 (Build 15F34)) > of 2016-06-09 > Package: Calc > > -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Kelkheim, Germany