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From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
Cc: 19582@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19582: 25.0.50; [PATCH] Calc: glitches with negation of units
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:34:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnm263mh.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85387e8x70.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:25:23 +0100")


>> Since 100 and (float 1 2) aren't the same, that might be a bug of some
>> kind.
>
> Sure, but
>
> (math-equal 100 '(float 1 2)) => t
>
> and (info "(calc) Predicates") states
>
>  -- Function: math-equal x y
>      Returns true if X and Y are numerically equal, either because they
>      are `equal', or because their difference is `zerop'. [...]
>
> so, IIUC, mathematically, they are as equal as it gets in calc.

Ah, right.  But the same calculations on the same objects should produce
results which are equal, not just math-equal.  

> On the other hand, I'm not sure if calculations with (float ...)
> are exact (if possible) in calc ?

Calc will do the exact computations, since internally it uses base 10 to
represents floats.  Of course, the user might not consider (float ...)s
to be exact.








  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13 14:22 bug#19582: 25.0.50; [PATCH] Calc: glitches with negation of units Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-13 15:55 ` Jay Belanger
2015-01-13 16:01   ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-13 16:06     ` Jay Belanger
2015-01-13 16:25       ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-13 16:34         ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2015-01-13 16:48           ` Jay Belanger
2015-01-15 23:55       ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-18 16:29         ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-02-23 11:23         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-13 19:39     ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-13 21:57       ` Jay Belanger
2015-01-28  4:45       ` Compiled file behaves differently than the uncompiled file (Was Re: bug#19582) Jay Belanger
2015-01-28  8:42         ` David Kastrup
2015-01-28 13:33           ` Jay Belanger
2015-01-28 15:11       ` bug#19582: 25.0.50; [PATCH] Calc: glitches with negation of units Jay Belanger

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