Timeline for Gnome's calculator: "Malformed expression"
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| Jul 1 at 18:52 | comment | added | Mark Jeronimus |
This notation doesn't follow precedence rules. For example 2e80/5e79 should come out as 4 but 2×10⁸⁰÷5×10⁷⁹ comes out as 4×10¹⁵⁸. I know I can "solve" this by putting parentheses around the numbers, but that makes no logical sense; a single number, that just happens to be a scientific number, shouldn't require redundant parentheses. This is just one of the many things Gnome-calculator just screws up completely from a usability point of view. (The others being unable to copy/paste results into other programs like Calc because it's all malformed.)
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| Apr 22, 2019 at 14:46 | comment | added | Charles Green | @undercat I knew I recognized it from somewhere - but it's been several years since I did serious work with LaTeX | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 14:45 | comment | added | undercat | @Jim-chrissCharles It's very intuitive if you're familiar with LaTeX, but I agree it feels like a strange design choice not to support the e-style notation. | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 14:20 | comment | added | Charles Green | @Jim-chrissCharles The notation that you used does work elsewhere, like in the LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet, and I would have used it myself! Gnome Calculator is useful to me for short, small calculations but not much that's more complex. | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 14:15 | vote | accept | Jim-chriss Charles | ||
| Apr 22, 2019 at 14:14 | comment | added | Jim-chriss Charles | I wonder why it is not intuitive as it's supposed to be?, it works though. | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 13:54 | history | answered | Charles Green | CC BY-SA 4.0 |