[KLUG Members] Windows calculator v GNOME calculator

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:49 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > So this made me wonder: does hex math for some reason only allow
> > integers?
> 
> That is what I thought... Maybe look in Wikipedia.
> 
The Linux calculator doesn't show any difficulty with fractions as
values to the right of the decimal point (aka "radix point"?) See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system#Division, esp section
on Conversion

and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal, section on fractions.