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bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness"
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Torsten Bronger |
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bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness" |
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:35:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Hallöchen!
David Hansen writes:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:26:54 -0500 Jay Belanger wrote:
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>> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>> ...
>>>>>From the units table (u v in calc):
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>>> tsp 492892159375 10^-11 ml Teaspoon
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>> The values are stored that way, instead of as a float, when they are
>> exact.
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> What exactly is "exact"?
It means: the first quantity has exactly this value in terms of the
second quantity, with this number of digits, by definition.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness", Jay Belanger, 2008/09/29