Hello all! 2.4 is released! This release is, primarily a bugfix release, but also now has a big-enough improvement in the processing of international input...
Hello, I'm getting a little tired of the current icon... In part because it's occasionally hard to click on, and in part because the icon doesn't say much...
... You're in luck - it already exists! :) Add this to your ~/.wcalcrc: save_errors = yes Or, within wcalc, you can do this: \remember_errors ~Kyle -- The next...
Hi, just a feature request I think it's really useful: wcalc should remember even wrong commands so that one could catch them in the command history and...
Daniele
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Apr 5, 2008 7:41 pm
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... Ahh, good find! Attached is a patch to fix the problem. The fix has been committed to CVS, and will be included in the next release. ...
hi in the manual is written: Assignments are of the form: key=value but that didn't work for me. i downloaded the source and had a look at the example rc. ...
... Committed to CVS. The logic for some of the output formatting gets kinda convoluted, so if someone could test it for me (it seems to work right to me),...
... I agree, I think this would be nice. Cheers, Daniele...
Daniele
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Feb 5, 2008 8:10 pm
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... The previous fix I posted fixes the toggle between enabled and disabled. As for converting to engineering notation, it does not (currently) do anything...
... Ahh, I see the error. Attached is the patch to fix it. I've committed the fix to CVS, and also added a few more bits to be a little more careful in other...
more on \eng: Enter an expression to evaluate, q to quit, or ? for help: -> 10^-2.63 = 0.00234423 -> \e Engineering notation is enabled = 0.00234423 ->...
Daniele
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Feb 4, 2008 9:08 am
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Hi, when wcalc starts and I type twice \eng it crashes: Enter an expression to evaluate, q to quit, or ? for help: -> \eng Engineering notation is enabled = 0 ...
Daniele
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Feb 4, 2008 8:48 am
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Uhm, I tought I sent you a private mail. Anyway, I was wrong, maybe I've done some wierd mistakes while building it .. now everything works well, the .tar is...
Daniele
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Jul 24, 2007 4:38 pm
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Hey all, Softpaedia.com just posted an in-depth review of Wcalc! http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/mac/Wcalc-Review-60719.shtml Here's the long and short of it:...
... Eh? I didn't think I left anything like that in there. I just downloaded the 2.3 tarball, to check, and here's what I get: $ find . -name config.cache $...
Hi, just a note that could be easly fixed for the next release, right now it isn't a problem because I fixed it in the debian package I'm building:...
Daniele
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Jul 23, 2007 2:22 pm
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Hello everyone! I just released Wcalc 2.3, as promised. This has plenty of bugfixes (some of which were discussed on this list), and a couple new features that...
... I finally got around to finding and fixing this. For posterity's sake, it was a case of not using enough precision when translating variables into strings...
... Hmmm, that *is* a strange result. I'm looking into it... ~Kyle -- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where...
hi, I'm reporting a strange result of a simple expression: -> 23.05-14.5-8.55 = 0 -> 23.05 = 23.05 -> a = 23.05 -> a-14.5-8.55 = -1E-09 the last line should...
Daniele
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Apr 14, 2007 1:23 pm
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... Huh. That's pretty strange. What appears to be happening is that we're tripping over an oddity in the mpfr number library. Check here: ...
hello -> (-27)^(1/3) = Not a Number -> -(27)^(1/3) = -3 -> cbrt (-27) = -3 it seems the first evaluation isn't correct. I use wcalc version 2.2.2. Cheers, ...
Daniele
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Mar 29, 2007 8:36 am
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The offending sender has been banned, and the spam removed from the message archive. ~Kyle -- If man was meant to be nude, he would have been born that way. --...
Hello everyone! 2.2.2 is released! This is primarily a bugfix release. Most notably, the mod operator (%) is both efficient and correct now (yeesh, that was...
... Nope, that's wrong. Looks like I need to get this fixed version out asap. ~Kyle -- It is easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli...
Perhaps I found another bug in the mod operator, I don't know if the result change with the last modifies to the way the mod works, so .. For `m % n' where `m'...
Daniele
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Jul 5, 2006 3:35 pm
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... Well, rounding output towards zero would pick floor() or ceil() depending on the sign of output. I'm checking the sign of the first operand instead. So, if...
... Well, I'm not saying I'm in love with ADA, I'm just suggesting we preserve the existing behavior for % and do a better/different one with a new operator...
... Actually, if I'm reading the ADA reference manual correctly, the REM operator does exactly what your algorithm does (A REM B keeps the sign of A) while the...
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