Bug 79827 - kcalc should have engineering notation
Summary: kcalc should have engineering notation
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdeutils
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-17 06:48 UTC by Stephen Rasku
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-26 16:50:07 UTC
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Description Stephen Rasku 2002-12-17 06:48:35 UTC 
Description of problem:

Most scientific calculators have an engineering notation.  You should be able to
configure kcalc to use engineering notation.  In engineering notation, the
exponent is always a multiple of 3.  For example, the scientific notation number
3e+08 would be displayed as 300e+06.  This makes it easy to determine how many
million, billion, trillion, etc. my calculation worked out to.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kcalc-3.0.3-0.7

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Multiply 3000*9000
    
Actual results:

It displays 2.7e+07.

Expected results:

If engineering notation was configured, it would display 270.e+e07
Comment 1 Stephen Rasku 2002-12-17 06:49:53 UTC 
That should be 270.e+06.
Comment 2 Than Ngo 2004-10-26 16:50:07 UTC 
it's a new feature request in KDE. Could you please report it to kde
bugzilla directly. Thanks
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