Calculator 3.2.1 under OS 10.3.9 calculates correctly. And yes, I do
remember the Pentium error as I had one of those machines. Long gone.

kt


> From: Bill Judson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:47:54 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [G] Math error-are we getting a free pass? and Calculator
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>> On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
>> 
>>> Remember the Pentium (II iirc) Math error and the Brouhaha it
>>> caused? Well I am getting some "errors" using Apple's Calculator in
>>> 10.2. Granted these are floating point errors, but still 580.15 +
>>> 35.3 should equal 615.45 not 615.4499999999.
>>> 
>>> Anyone else see these errors?
>> 
>> not present in 10.4.2 calculator, v4.0 (2005), it adds the above as
>> expected.
>> 
>> B
>> 
> 
> Calculator 3.0 on 10.2.8 gave me 615.45, too.
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