[KLUG Members] Windows calculator v GNOME calculator

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:04 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I noticed in playing with converting between hex and decimal numbers on
> the calculator in Windows that the hex values only work with integers:
> If I enter, say, 345.678 as a decimal value and convert to hex, it
> rounds, giving a hex integer. And going back from that value to the
> decimal shows that the calculator really has lost the values after the
> decimal point. Furthermore, the calculator won't let one insert a
> decimal point when entering a hex value.
> 
> So this made me wonder: does hex math for some reason only allow
> integers? It didn't seem likely, and I found nothing by googling that
> addressed this. So, I thought, what does Linux do? Opening the
> calculator in Ubuntu Gnome I was pleased to find that there are no such
> constraints on hex math with that calculator. 
> 
> Thanks, BillG.
> 
> a word to the wise...
> EB
> 
VBA and VB apparently have this same limitation--at least for hex, which
is all I've checked out.

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