> On Jan 9, 2020, at 9:04, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 4:54 PM, George N. White III <gnw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am running the latest version of Mojave (10.14.6) on a fairly new iMac.
>>> Using the Scientific view in the Calculator app, I tried to evaluate
>>> exp(-1) and it said "Not a number". I tried several other negative values
>>> and none worked, even though they certainly should. When I tried taking 10
>>> to the -1 power, I got the correct result (0.1), but for some reason it has
>>> a problem raising "e" (the base for natural logarithms) to a negative power.
>>>
>> I've encountered similar issues when the "minus" sign was some Unicode
>> "dash" supplied by an overly helpful editor like MacOS textedit. Living in
>> Canada, I have found that systems sometimes produce the look-alike
>> characters when trying to write in the French language.
>
> Great catch. Check your Keyboard preference panel for unexpected key
> translations.
And also try by just clicking on the keys "1" "x/-" "ex" to see if the correct
result is output.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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