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bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness"
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David Hansen |
Subject: |
bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness" |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:32:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:26:54 -0500 Jay Belanger wrote:
> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
> ...
>>>>From the units table (u v in calc):
>>
>> tsp 492892159375 10^-11 ml Teaspoon
>
> The values are stored that way, instead of as a float, when they are
> exact.
What exactly is "exact"? Just to be a bit pedantic: the "meter" (and
therefore every measure of length/surface/volume) is *not* exact, it's
an experimentally determined quantity (the length that light travels
1/299792458 seconds).
David
bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness", Jay Belanger, 2008/09/29