Re: Where to report Script Editor bug?
Re: Where to report Script Editor bug?
- Subject: Re: Where to report Script Editor bug?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:41:02 -0700
On Feb 20, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
It's handy that 'degrees Celsius' and 'degrees Fahrenheit' exist as
classes
for conversion purposes. I don't get where you expect to be able to
coerce
them to string. Be grateful that they coerce to real, and use that.
They convert to string, and for all cases other than zero, they present
the string of the real.
E.g., -40 as degrees Celsius as string
--> "-40.0"
Only for zero does it show as the string of an exponential expression.
0 as degrees Celsius as string
--> " 0e+0"
Even numbers that as exponential expressions
(1.0E+12) as degrees Celsius as string
--> degrees Celsius 1.0E+12
return decimal numbers when displayed as strings
(1.0E+12) as degrees Celsius as string
"1000000000000"
So why does only zero degrees present the exponential notation when
displayed as string?
BTW, degrees Fahrenheit does the same thing.
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