Gcalctool and square root

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Jan 15 16:12:18 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:33 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 
> 15/01/2006 15:22:
> 
> >On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:39:35PM +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Square root seems not working.
> >>when I press Sqrt button I get the following expression:
> >>Sqrt(
> >>
> >>If I write a number in front of it, I get a malformed expression warning.
> >>What am I missing???
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >When I do it I can make Sqrt work.
> >If I want to take the Sqrt of 123/3.
> >I hit the Sqrt key, then 123 , then /, then 3 then type ).
> >Now when I hit return I get the square root of 123/3.
> >  
> >
> made exactly what you did and I get a malformed expression warning.
> Gcalctool is 5.6.31 and I am running Fedora 4 with the Italian language...
> 
I tried what akonstam shows above and it works for me.
The formula prior to pressing the enter key (= button) was "Sqrt(123/3)"
The result was 6.403124237 which is the sqrt of 41 (as expected).

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