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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE can't calculate
From:       Andreas Reuter <Andreas.Reuter () munich ! netsurf ! de>
Date:       1999-06-17 22:34:03
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David Black wrote:
> 
> Andreas Reuter wrote:
> >
> > Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> > >
> > > Something came up in a local mailing list.
> > >
> > > Try to "square" 1,0000001 27 times. The result should be 674530,4707
> > > with 10 significant digits.
> > >
> > > In KDE it gives 674530,4755
> > >
> > > But Windows 98 has it right. Annoying !
> > >
> > > GNOME has the same problem, so maybe it's somewhere in the libraries?
> >
> > Experimenting the following, I can4t follow, using kcalc you4re right
> 
>         If I remeber correctly doesn't the about dialog mention
> that the author had to degrade the precision due to broken glibc
> code?
[...]
I´m not sure, but it works correctly (as I can see) using double
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