At 5:44 PM -0600 1/15/06, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Jeff Vian ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 15/01/2006
>> 17:12:
>>
>>>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:33 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>>>akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on
>>>>15/01/2006 15:22:
>>>>>On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:39:35PM +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>>>>>Square root seems not working.
>>>>>>when I press Sqrt button I get the following expression:
>>>>>>Sqrt(
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If I write a number in front of it, I get a malformed expression
>>>>>> warning.
>>>>>>What am I missing???
>>>>>When I do it I can make Sqrt work.
>>>>>If I want to take the Sqrt of 123/3.
>>>>>I hit the Sqrt key, then 123 , then /, then 3 then type ).
>>>>>Now when I hit return I get the square root of 123/3.
>>>>made exactly what you did and I get a malformed expression warning.
>>>>Gcalctool is 5.6.31 and I am running Fedora 4 with the Italian
>>>> language...
>>>I tried what akonstam shows above and it works for me.
>>>The formula prior to pressing the enter key (= button) was "Sqrt(123/3)"
>>>The result was 6.403124237 which is the sqrt of 41 (as expected).
>> we have to wait for the confirmation from someone from my country.
>> No way to work and no doubt about your calculation but also about my
>> findings...I realized this bug as my son was doing some math calculation
>> for high school and pointed out that he couldn't get a SqrRoot (but also
>> absolute value is not working)
>Let me point out that the way it works is not the way I would have created
>this tool. I would want when you hit Sqrt that is would take the square
>root of the number on the screen but it works in the way many calculators
>work that you need to enter the whole expression algebraically and then
>the calculation is made.
I'm finding this whole thread very confusing, because, on my FC3 system,
when I type "gcalctool" I get the gnome calculator accessory, which works
as you describe. I can't find any mode where Sqrt shows "Sqrt(", though if
I type a "(" I can enter an expression, press Sqrt and see an "s" in the
expression, and evaluate the expression by typing a ")". Gcalctool version
4.4.20.
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