Bug#395490: gcalctool: exponential values cannot be entered correctly

[Filippo Rusconi]

Package: gcalctool
Version: 5.8.24-1+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


According to the manual, entering something like 12 Exp 8 +/- should
produce that number: 0.00000012.

Now, if I try that same example, by keying in that stuff: 12 Exp 8
+/-, the display will read this: -(12e8).

If I want to make sure that the result is expected I continue keying
in: *1, so that the display reads this: -(12e8)x1 (multiply by one);

and when I ask the result to be displayed (keying in '=') I get
-1.2e+9 ---which is NOT the expected result.


The example, 12 Exp 8 +/- +/-, which should give -1.2e-7, that is
-0.00000012 does not work either.


That is a SIGNIFICANT problem.

Sincerely,

Filippo Rusconi





-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-fr2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gcalctool depends on:
ii  gconf2                       2.14.0-5    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.12.3-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.14.0-5    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.12.4-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                  2.14.1-3    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                 2.14.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.8.20-3    The GTK+ graphical user interface 

gcalctool recommends no packages.

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