Re: The future of gnome-pim - and Balsa, too?

[Erik Bågfors <erik bagfors nu>]

On 13 Aug 2001 16:17:28 +0200, David Pettersson wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2001 16:06:44 +0200, David Pettersson wrote:
> 
> > [gcalc] gives hints of being a scientific calculator, but it doesn't evalute
> > expressions as one (ie, 2 + 4 / 3 != 2).
> 
> I made a mistake here. Both the GNOME calculator and xcalc behave as
> scientific calculators here. I was trying to point out that you average
> desktop calculator doesn't behave this way, that  2 + 4 / 3 equals 2
> according to them.

2 + 4 / 3 is _never_ 2.  The calculator that gives that answer is wrong
and no calculator should behave like that IMNSHO.

A cheep $10 calculator does it right (I know.. I have some :) ). Just
because some calculators that you get handed out as free advertisement
(that's the only kind I can think of that does this) does things wrong
doesn't mean we should mimic it.

If you want to calculate (2+4)/3 you should use parenthesizes or do
"2+4=" and then "/3".

Of course a _real_ calculator uses RPN :)

/Erik

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