It's out, it's great, and I'm feeling confident that it will make a lot of people pretty pleased. The major new feature now is support for arbitrary precision...
... Yep, haven't yet managed to compile it. What version of mpfr did you use? I have the most recent gmp version (4.1.4) installed and wcalc complains about...
... I ran into that too when trying to compile it on my OpenBSD machine (only gmp is in ports, not mpfr, sadly). But, if you install mpfr 2.1.1, from...
2.1 is released! This version is primarily a bug-fix version, though there are a few small features. The biggest bug that got squashed: a bug that made the a ...
2.1.1 is released! This is primarily a bugfix release—several bugs were found in the UTF-8 and internationalization support (thanks Marco Thill!), plus I...
Hi, I can't view wcalc website with firefox 1.0.7, I get this error in both homepage and download page: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: ...
crowolo
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Nov 8, 2005 7:05 pm
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... Really? Hrm... it verifies as XML 1.0 Strict: ...
... Ok, now it works, thanks. Cheers, Daniele -- GPG Fingerprint: 7B1F 0815 BB7D CF35 1018 EEAB 4B97 6382 F151 402D - GPG Key [ID: 0xF151402D] available @...
Daniele
scrows@...
Nov 8, 2005 8:11 pm
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2.1.2 is released! This is, like 2.1.1, primarily a bugfix release. The biggest bugfix is in file I/O -- there was some funky behavior going on there, but it's...
Damn, it has sure been a while... I just realized today that it's been 18 months since I went out with a special lady last, but I'm pretty happy to be...
kendra.mackey6246@...
Jan 15, 2006 4:06 pm
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2.2 is released! This, as you may be able to tell from the larger version bump, includes some spiffy new features. Perhaps the most nifty for GUI users will be...
I wanted the remainder of a division with big numbers, this is what I've done: $ time wcalc "2^56 - floor(2^56 / 57)*57" = 4 real 0m0.004s user 0m0.001s ...
Daniele
scrows@...
Jun 28, 2006 10:15 am
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... Heh, right. Counting up to 2^56 in 57-steps might take a while. ;-) ... Sure. Patch attached. Cheers, Ingo...
... Hmm. What is currently in CVS is this: mpfr_set_ui(temp, 0, GMP_RNDN); mpfr_div(temp, first, second, GMP_RNDN); mpfr_rint(temp, temp, GMP_RNDZ); ...
... What's the first line good for? ... -20 is not an option. The question is: When performing the integer division of -340 and 60, do you round the result by...
... Hmm, not much, come to think of it. ... Hmm, well, I tend to like not being restrictive, and I also like maintaining the existing behavior. In Wcalc 1.x,...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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
scrows@...
Jul 5, 2006 3:35 pm
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... 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...
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...
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 -> (-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
scrows@...
Mar 29, 2007 8:36 am
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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: ...
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
scrows@...
Apr 14, 2007 1:23 pm
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... 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...
... 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...
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...
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