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regarding gnome-calculator: Operations with complex numbers
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Package: gnome-calculator
Version: 3.18.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear maintainer,
operations with complex numbers have some surprising results in gnome-
calculator.
while e^(a*i*Pi) seems to give the correct result for every a in R, other
related operations don't work as well:
* Integer power: z^n, z in C, n in N, returns z even if it makes no sense,
while z*z, for example, works fine.
If n is not positive, strange things happen, depending on inputs.
Reproduce with i^2, i^(-1), i^(-2)
* Hyperbolic fuctions: sinh(ai), cosh(ai) and tanh(ai) always return 0 and 1,
instead of the proper value.
With some testing, they seem to return f(Re(z)) instead of f(z).
Consider telling the user those functions are unsupported for some arguments,
like the factorial does.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-calculator depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.24.0-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-22
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.4-1
ii libcairo2 1.14.4-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1
ii libgmp10 2:6.1.0+dfsg-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.5-1
ii libgtksourceview-3.0-1 3.18.1-1
ii libmpfr4 3.1.3-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libxml2 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
Versions of packages gnome-calculator recommends:
ii gvfs 1.26.2-1
ii yelp 3.16.1-1
gnome-calculator suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hello,
as I have tested it on the newest version of gnome-calculator in Debian
forky/sid,
everything mentioned works fine, without any problems.
Probably it got fixed somewhere on the way.
If you still have problems, please open another bug report.
Thanks,
Dawid Kulas
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