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From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Word 4.0 bug list
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Date: 23 May 89 19:58:00 GMT
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Ron Morgan (osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP) writes the following about Word 4.0:

>One particularly appalling bug is the fact that the "calculate" function 
>doesn't work, especially with numbers containing decimals. For example,
>2.3 * 4.3 gets you 5.8, or some similar error. 

Funny, on my copy it gets you 9.9.  This is the "correct" answer (9.89) rounded
to a single decimal place, since no number in the original expression has more
than one decimal place.  THIS IS WHAT THE DOCUMENTATION SAYS WORD 4 IS
SUPPOSED TO DO.  Note that 2.3*4.3*1.00 will give you 9.89 as a result, since
now there is an operand with two decimal places.

I wonder how many other Word 4 "bugs" are really just failures to read the
documentation?  (I will agree that many of Microsoft's design decisions are
less than intuitive, but a weak design decision is _not_ the same thing as a
"bug".)

Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications