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From: pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: binary display problem in calctool
Message-ID: <1155@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 12:22:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 12:22:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 00:59:17 EDT
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I have found a serious bug in how Rich Burridge's calctool program.
The program does not display binary numbers correctly.

For example:

	1) enter the number 4143710208
	2) go into binary mode
	3) the display will have
111101101111110000000000000000

This is incorrect.  There should be 18, not 16 zeroes on the right
hand side.

% bc
obase=2
4143710208
11110110111111000000000000000000

It seems to work fine on small numbered binary arithmetic.

Has anyone found a fix for this?  (I am running calctool V1.2 ona Sun
3/17 running SunOS 3.2.)

					pZ
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