Calculator.app copy/paste broken with scientific notation?
Hello everyone,
Since I was finally in a position for someone else to pay for my laptop (hurray for grad school) I thought I'd finally try OSX. I have a macbook pro from September 2008, running 10.5.6. It's working alright, but I have a question about Calculator.app, mostly to confirm that it really is broken, and that I'm not just a clueless newbie:
Whenever I have a result that is in scientific notation (1.234e02, for example), copy/paste changes the number by discarding the exponent. It seems like the copy part is successful, as I can paste the full number in scientific notation into another application, but when I go to paste the number back into calculator, it doesn't recognize the exponent.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Calculator.app
2. For example, divide 40727 by 1228538. The result I get is 3.315078573068e-02
3. Use the Copy command to copy the current value to the clipboard.
4. Press ESC to clear out the calculator.
5. Paste the clipboard's contents into calculator. Notice how the exponent has been silently ignored/discarded.
Can anyone confirm this behavior? Am I right in thinking that something is broken here? Does apple have any sort of bug tracking system in place for nice users to report any bugs?
(Also, on a side note, does apple have any sort of "real" version numbers to describe their different hardware revisions, or am I forever stuck with saying "macbook pro from September 2008"?)
Thanks very much in advance,
Matthew
Since I was finally in a position for someone else to pay for my laptop (hurray for grad school) I thought I'd finally try OSX. I have a macbook pro from September 2008, running 10.5.6. It's working alright, but I have a question about Calculator.app, mostly to confirm that it really is broken, and that I'm not just a clueless newbie:
Whenever I have a result that is in scientific notation (1.234e02, for example), copy/paste changes the number by discarding the exponent. It seems like the copy part is successful, as I can paste the full number in scientific notation into another application, but when I go to paste the number back into calculator, it doesn't recognize the exponent.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Calculator.app
2. For example, divide 40727 by 1228538. The result I get is 3.315078573068e-02
3. Use the Copy command to copy the current value to the clipboard.
4. Press ESC to clear out the calculator.
5. Paste the clipboard's contents into calculator. Notice how the exponent has been silently ignored/discarded.
Can anyone confirm this behavior? Am I right in thinking that something is broken here? Does apple have any sort of bug tracking system in place for nice users to report any bugs?
(Also, on a side note, does apple have any sort of "real" version numbers to describe their different hardware revisions, or am I forever stuck with saying "macbook pro from September 2008"?)
Thanks very much in advance,
Matthew
MacBook Pro September 2008, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Calculator.app version 4.2
