Re: problem with Calculator app

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 9:04, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.
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>> 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.   
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> Great catch.  Check your Keyboard preference panel for unexpected key translations.

And also try by just clicking on the keys "1" "x/-" "ex" to see if the correct result is output.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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