Re: problem with Calculator app

Macs R We <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:04:24 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.macosx.general
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> On Jan 8, 2020, at 4:54 PM, George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am running the latest version of Mojave (10.14.6) on a fairly new iMac.  Using the Scientific view in the Calculator app, I tried to evaluate exp(-1) and it said "Not a number".  I tried several other negative values and none worked, even though they certainly should.  When I tried taking 10 to the -1 power, I got the correct result (0.1), but for some reason it has a problem raising "e" (the base for natural logarithms) to a negative power.
>> 
> 
> I've encountered similar issues when the "minus" sign was some Unicode "dash" supplied by an overly helpful editor like MacOS textedit.  Living in Canada, I have found that systems sometimes produce the look-alike characters when trying to write in the French language.   

Great catch.  Check your Keyboard preference panel for unexpected key translations.

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