From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19582: 25.0.50; [PATCH] Calc: glitches with negation of units Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:06:52 -0600 Message-ID: <87fvbe64wz.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> References: <851tmyah3n.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87k30q65gp.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> <85egqy8yaq.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421165360 21564 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2015 16:09:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19582@debbugs.gnu.org To: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 17:09:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1YB41p-0003b3-5i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:09:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB41o-0005tb-5v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB41h-0005tS-Al for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB41e-0005gd-2X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB41d-0005gY-Vb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YB41d-00041A-PV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:09:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jay Belanger Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19582 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch X-Debbugs-Original-Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.142116528415369 (code B ref -1); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jan 2015 16:08:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55570 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40h-0003zp-OW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53568) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40f-0003zK-DP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:08:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40Z-0004ss-H0 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:48626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40Z-0004so-E7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40Y-0005SZ-GV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40V-0004qc-5F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:07:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.truman.edu ([150.243.165.76]:35752 helo=uranium.truman.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YB40V-0004qU-1E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from vh213601.truman.edu (vh213601.truman.edu [150.243.162.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uranium.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 758C94C0C9; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:07:37 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <85egqy8yaq.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:01:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:98307 Archived-At: >> Fantastic, thanks. I'll apply the patches to Calc as soon as I get to >> my home computer. > > I could do this myself, actually... Great! >> But what did you mean when you wrote: >> Apparently, the representation of numbers is sometimes >> influenced by previous results in the same calc stack. > > The same calculation can return an expression where some sub-expression > is a plain integer, say 100, or the corresponding float (float 1 2). > I'll provide an explicit example. Okay, thanks. Since 100 and (float 1 2) aren't the same, that might be a bug of some kind. I'm not sure that a test should indicate that they are equal, so maybe you shouldn't put that part in yet.