Re: Bug in gnome calculator

[Claudio Bley <bley CS uni-magdeburg de>]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:28:04AM +0200, Roberto Mantovani wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I've found a bug in gnome calculator :
>
> performing this calculation:
>
> (11*9+5.5*14+35)*0.19+2*10*0.19
>
> the result is : 544.578 that is obviously wrong
>
> The correct result is : 43.89 and to obtain it I must enter this
> expression:
>
> ((11*9)+(5.5*14)+(35))*0.19+(2*10*0.19)
>
> It seems that gnome calculator has a wrong management of operators
> precedence, I know that the operator precedence is : * / + - 
>
> Do you know if this bug has been already notified or not ?
> Wath's the right place to notify this bug ?

Hello Roberto,

at first, this is gtk-app-devel -- a list for discussions about GTK+ 
application development. I think gnome-list would have been a more
appropriate list to direct such questions to.

Bugs usually should be reported to bugzilla (gnome.bugzilla.org).

You don't give much background information but I presume that you're
talking about gcalctool -- the calculator included in Gnome >= 2.4.

The documentation says:

"Gcalctool has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. 
 Calculations are performed from left to right, with no arithmetic precedence." 

                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"If you need arithmetic precedence, then you should use parentheses."

-- 
claudio