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Re: Possible bug.


  • Subject: Re: Possible bug.
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 07:55:25 -0700

On 5/3/04 6:00 AM, "Axel Luttgens" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> If you give it a number, all bets are off. you can't call it a bug when it
>> fails to do what's undocumented in the first place. It so happens that some
>> silent coercion works when you give it a rational number but not an
>> irrational one. So what? You shouldn't be giving it a number in the first
>> place. It's awfully simple to make an explicit coercion 'as string' - every
>> time - so you never need to know that you could omit that for certain types
>> of numbers.
>>
>
> Perhaps, but...
>
> run script ((1 / (2 ^ 3 + 1)) as string)
> --> Un(e) ,  ne peut pas se trouver aprhs ce numiro.
>
> :-)

Which version of AS?

AS 1.9.3:

run script ((1 / (2 ^ 3 + 1)) as string)
--> 0.111111111111


--
Paul Berkowitz

[demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
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