From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour in calc
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:30:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyrrnndl.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8774.1127794336.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
> Hello
>
> in GNU Emacs 21.4.1 on Debian testing/unstable using the debian calc package
> when I give the "algebraic" formula
>
> 4+6/10
>
> it evaluates to 23:5 which I think is the right answer since the
> standard convention is that division has precedence over addition.
> How ever on GNU Emacs 22.0.51.1 (multi-tty) the same algebraic
> expession evaluates to 1, which means that addition is evaluated
> before the division. Is this the intended behaviour or is this a bug?
> Even if this is the intended behaviour I would still suggest that it
> *is* a bug!
I agree; except I can't reproduce it.
In cvs Emacs, 4+6/10 gives me 4.6 or (in fraction mode) 23:5.
What are your calc settings?
Jay
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2005-09-27 4:30 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2005-09-27 10:53 ` Strange behaviour in calc Neon Absentius
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2005-09-27 13:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-09-27 14:29 ` Neon Absentius
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2005-09-27 15:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-09-27 14:59 ` Jay Belanger
2005-09-27 4:10 Neon Absentius
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