Re: galculator should be included in Gnome

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Rich Burridge wrote:

> > Secondly, galculator pays respect to arithmetic precedence. Doing 1+2*3 you 
> get
> > 7 as the correct result in galculator (like gcalc), but gcalctool gives
> > you 9 (1+2=3, 3*3=9). In my opinion one can't demand the user to think about
> > arithmetic precedence and to resolve it with braces. Arithmetic precedence
> > handling is a first step towards "Typing something in as it's written on paper
> > should give the correct answer straight off".
> 
> Good luck with this when you take it to your HCI person. calctool and
> sdtcalctool (gcalctool predecessors) have had a *lot* of HCI input and
> usability testing, and this functionality did not go well with them.
> 
> Also you should consider comparing against the software calculator that
> probably most of the world is using - the one that comes with Windows.
> I just tried 1+2*3 there and it gives 9.
> 

No. It does so only in the basic/standard mode. The scientific mode gets
it right.

	Sander

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