After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a bug?

I tried the following:

3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000

The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4

Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
this unbelievably buggy MS POS?

Some dumb guy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a bug?
>
>I tried the following:
>
>3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>
>The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>
>Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
>this unbelievably buggy MS POS?

No bugs, that's just the way floating point arithmetic works on *any*
computer. Floating point numbers are approximations. The two you
created probably have little enough precision that they can be
represented exactly. The result of the division is a fraction, and
that pretty surely cannot be represented exactly. Floating point
numbers in *any* computer are binary, and translating decimal
fractions to binary cannot always be done precisely. You can't
represent 1/3 as a decimal fraction, you get .333333 with an infinite
number of threes. Similarly, you can't represent 1/10 as a binary
fraction. The more digits you display in your answer, the more likely
this kind of inexactitude is likely to show up.

Your answer, written as a decimal fraction without the trailing
exponent is:

..000600087

rounded to the nearest 1 billionth. How much precision do you need?

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
(E-Mail Removed)
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

Some dumb guy wrote:
> After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a bug?
>
> I tried the following:
>
> 3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>
> The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
> this unbelievably buggy MS POS?
>
I use CALC98.

Look here:

http://www.calculator.org/download.html

"Some dumb guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a bug?
>
> I tried the following:
>
> 3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>
> The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
> this unbelievably buggy MS POS?

Unbelievably buggy? What is the answer you expected?

"Some dumb guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a bug?
>
> I tried the following:
>
> 3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>
> The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
> this unbelievably buggy MS POS?
>
Speaking of questions, why after all these years do you not realize that
floating point operations are not exact?
It is a hardware problem.

Jim

"Some dumb guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a bug?
>
> I tried the following:
>
> 3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>
> The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
> this unbelievably buggy MS POS?
>

What answer do you think it should give?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Do not send mail.

Some dumb guy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to replace
>this unbelievably buggy MS POS?

The general opinion at this point seems to indicate that you couldn't
find your asshole with the aid of an extra pair of hands and a
flashlight.

Find one on your own.

Some dumb guy wrote:
> After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a
> bug?
> I tried the following:
>
> 3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>
> The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to
> replace this unbelievably buggy MS POS?

I recognize you: Your nick is appropriate. Troll would be, too, as would
be a hate monger.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/f...tml#calculator

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm


"Poprivet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Some dumb guy wrote:
>> After all these years does the MS Calculator applet *still* have a
>> bug?
>> I tried the following:
>>
>> 3,600,523 divided by 6,000,000,000
>>
>> The answer I get is: 6.0008716666666666666666666666667e-4
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a simple freeware arithmetic calculator to
>> replace this unbelievably buggy MS POS?
>
> I recognize you: Your nick is appropriate. Troll would be, too, as would
> be a hate monger.
>