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Re: Bug in Apple's Calculator App? (Off topic)

Subject: Re: Bug in Apple's Calculator App? (Off topic)
From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 04:14:15 -0800

On Jan 6, 2005, at 17:38, John Clements wrote:

BUT, I was just exploring numerical accuracy with large numbers and hit a bug...

Type in 100 and click 10^x button. Result is  1e+100
Type in 150 and click 10^x button. Result is 1.84467440737e+146
Type in 160 and click 10^x button. Result is 1.84467440737e+146
Type in 200 and click 10^x button. Result is  1e+200

Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator displays 1e+150 and 1e+160 for the middle cases. If you're looking for a good calculator, give it a try:

	<http://pacifict.com/>

If you have Mac OS 9 installed, it includes a free copy of an earlier version.

Disclaimer: I created the help book for the Mac OS X version.

--
Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Dylan Pundit

 That’s “Chris” with a silent *and* invisible “3”.

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