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- secleinteer, on 10/12/2007, -26/+413Well, the Mac is supposed to be used for "fun" things, right? Math isn't fun! Stop trying to get work done on your Mac and go back to editing your videos!
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -19/+271But its so much more fun to post it on digg and cause a flamewar....
- forensicmeteobo, on 10/12/2007, -23/+269=Nobody with any serious need for a calculator uses the OSX default anyways.
Um- not everyone has their TI-84 plus-silver on their desk next to their protractor and compass. - sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -17/+247"Until you file it, it's not a bug, it's just a gripe."
Ummmm... no it's still a bug. - lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -18/+234unless its a microsoft product right? i'm guessing if this was calculator from XP, the headline would look something like:
"Windows XP Calculator blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths (in Guam) and power grid failures due to erroneous calculations"
/enjoys a good flamewar... atleast were not out drinking and bangin ugly chics - omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -23/+212Maybe this explains how Verizon can't grasp the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars... they're all using Macs.
- Chairboy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+162Calculate different.
- LazloHollifeld, on 10/12/2007, -12/+148I guess thats why mac said that PC was good with numbers. Maybe he should just stick to making home movies and macking on sexy Japanese cameras.
- patience, on 10/12/2007, -17/+123PC Users: can calculate and understand the value of money.
Mac users; $600 dollars + $1450 2 year plan for a cell phone. - DudeRoks, on 10/12/2007, -21/+111Hi I am a Mac, I can splice videos, photoshop pictures, make websites for my cat and I suck at Math!
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -5/+93Yeah but did you see how you can scroll on that thing? Woooow!
- DavX, on 10/12/2007, -43/+129Nobody uses OSX for real work anyway, it's probably been broken for years.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+82"Apparently you know nothing about software, because most commercial software out there is loaded with bugs. "
It an f-ing calculator! You need to raise the bar a little bit. - NSResponder, on 10/21/2007, -120/+196http://bugreport.apple.com/
Until you file it, it's not a bug, it's just a gripe.
-jcr - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -13/+89"Until you file it, it's not a bug, it's just a gripe"
No..... Obviously this is a feature cause Mac's don't have bugs. - betacmag4u, on 10/12/2007, -52/+127This would not happen on a Microsoft based system !
- Cartmack, on 10/12/2007, -21/+87PC: So your basically like a high school drop out then huh?
:D - bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -12/+69When you look cool and are popular, math doesn't matter.
- lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51in calc.exes' defense
http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2007&m=02&img=11-112642L&t=png&rand=2320&srv=img2 - rwjussel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48@m1ss1ontomars
Sure it does, it's right under the squirt (sqrt) button. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49Hey, not all of us PC users are like that, don't lump us together.
- anotherjeff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42no wonder i failed math.
- jamend, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41It has actually, the Mac OS X calculator/paper tape floating point math bug has been know about for a long time.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25687 - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38It appears to be a locale issue.
- bflfab, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40Dugg for showing what the M+ M- MR buttons do. I've used calculators for twenty years and never bother to figure out what those buttons do!
- Archimboldo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Mac and PC are both wrong. The answer is 42.
- compwizz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+43I just tried this on my MacBook Pro. I'm in the US and the results were both exactly the same. When I took the difference of the values I got 0. So his first assumption that it only happens on Intel Macs is incorrect, unless it is only Intel-Based Macs that are using a different locale.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+53@betacmag4u
!! You must only compare Microsoft to Apple when Apple is clearly better in the comparison! You just broke the most important rule of Digg; Apple > all. - Narpas, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40Mac is about to cry in the corner, Accept or Deny?
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31No.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Perhaps Verizon could help us with this, they're quite good at math.
- NeoCortex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29It scrolls like butter.
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -32/+58- Hi. I'm a PC user. I use words like "*****" and "gay" to underline how much I dislike something.
- alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29"that's because calc.exe has no percent button."
Yes it does... - thealliedhacker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Actually, it has a percent button... and it works.
Dunno what you're smoking.
*edit* Ok, definetely beat to that one... */edit* - vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -6/+28I've been to universities who have Mac minis in labs when doing scientific research.
- kuribo, on 10/12/2007, -28/+50Being off by 0.04 cents isn't too bad. Now, if it were a difference of 0.04 DOLLARS...
- Flanker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Don't worry Kuribo. I get your joke.
- sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Protip: Other countries use different formatting for numbers.
- OutlawSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19This is a bug with it interpreting localized numbers properly. Not the "math" itself, per se...
- terranaut, on 10/12/2007, -15/+29But it does,
The Calculator on my WM2003SE Pocket PC can't get percentages right either,. - lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16@herolint: please correct me if i'm wrong but i believe what you are speaking of a hardware problem and not a software issue: http://www.willamette.edu/~mjaneba/pentprob.html
"The most famous example and the worst well-known case is 4195835/3145727, discovered by Tim Coe of Vitesse Semiconductors. The correct value is 1.33382 to 6 sig. figs, while the flawed Pentium's floating-point unit computed 1.33374 to 6 sig figs, a relative error of 0.006%. One can easily test a Pentium using Microsoft's Windows and this example: Use the Windows calculator in scientific mode to divide Coe's numbers and compare to the numbers above."
@sugarwater: i'm sorry to have offended you. from here out let it be known that sugerwater, whilst sober, only bangs the finest broads. discuss - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14So THAT's what butter scrolls like.
- Miniman, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23Im pretty sure you just got Buried as Inaccurate.
- jonmlm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16@odweaver: fat fingers? i guess you didn't actually watch the VIDEO?
- wedges, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17on my MBP i got the same values for both processes
- CdnPhoto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12It looks like some regions have the precision set to 2 rather than the 11 that others might be using.
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Windows calculator:
1 + 2 x 3 = 9
OS X calculator:
1 + 2 x 3 = 7
"
It depends on whether you use the standard calc or the scientific calc. Standard calc is only aware of one operation at a time, so
1 + 2 = 3 * 3 = 9
Now switch to scientific mode. View -> Scientific
Do the same thing, you get 7 because it is aware of the rules for order of operations
1 + 2 * 3 = 1 + (2 * 3) = 1 + (6) = 7
Pretty stupid IMO, but at least it does the right thing in scientific mode. - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12How quickly people forget...
- Pitfan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I really hope apple doesn't use their own calculator to do their yearly fiscal reports..
brb, selling apple stock. -
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