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Article #42998Re: Word 4.0 bug list
From: hirchert
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 19:58
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 19:58
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!hirchert From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Word 4.0 bug list Message-ID: <46100304@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 23 May 89 19:58:00 GMT References: <13245@ut-emx.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:ut-emx.UUCP:13245:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:46100304:000:955 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!hirchert May 23 14:58:00 1989