Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: speedcrunch
Bug occurs with Ubuntu hardy (development branch), package speedcrunch
0.9-0ubuntu1
To reproduce the bug, enter:
2e-01<enter>
This should be parsed (and displayed) as 0.2. Instead, it parses to 2.0.
The behaviour is due to the leading 0 in the exponent, that makes the whole
exponent parse to zero.
Removing the leading 0 makes the number parse correctly. It is confirmed not to
be a weird intentional feature
by the program (fortunately).
Unfortunately, this is a regression for Hardy. Gutsy parses correctly. The bug
was initially reported to the
Speedcrunch developers, who informed me it wasn't reproducible on Gutsy or in
their new version 0.10.
According to them, this should be a packaging error and they referred me here.
Although the problem may seem a bit obscure, I found it extremely annoying. It
prevents one from simply copying in the
results of other codes when they happen to output their values in scientific
notation with a two digit exponent.
** Affects: speedcrunch (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Speedcrunch parses exponent wrongly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213221
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