Powertoy Calculator Can't Use 'i' as Variable ?

[Love Music]

Define functions:
i(u) = 1 + u works ok.
u(i)= 1+ i doesn't ??
Do I just have a corrupted copy ?

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"Love Music" <Love...@discussions.microsoft.com> said this in news item
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Nothing to do with Windows XP - try a Powertoy newsgroup.

[thanatoid]

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<Love...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:626FD506-
2D0E-4B8A-80A...@microsoft.com:

It is well known that the Windows Calculator has always been
faulty. Get one of the hundreds of free replacements.

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"thanatoid" <wai...@the.exit.invalid> said this in news item
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Would you care to give one or two examples?

[Bob I]

thanatoid wrote:

Windows Calculator is NOT the subject of discussion.

[thanatoid]

"Pegasus [MVP]" <ne...@microsoft.com> wrote in
news:upt6kd7g...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

Examples of WC being faulty or 100's of free replacements? Be
specific, you're a mathematician.

[thanatoid]

Bob I <bir...@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:#NkFKm9g...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

Powertoys is a Windows product, although never "officially
supported" AFAICR.

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"thanatoid" <wai...@the.exit.invalid> said this in news item

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Being faulty.

[Bob I]

thanatoid wrote:

Sigh.

[thanatoid]

"Pegasus [MVP]" <ne...@microsoft.com> wrote in

news:eg87QWGh...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

> "thanatoid" <wai...@the.exit.invalid> said this in news
> item news:Xns9CEAEFE74...@188.40.43.245...

<SNIP>

>> Examples of WC being faulty or 100's of free replacements?
>> Be specific, you're a mathematician.
>
> Being faulty.

Well, I looked, and I found these two - and it took a while.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/72540

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistaapps/thr
ead/762c410e-2338-42ee-94b4-9f90b4bbaf58

So it appears it's an old-sh and/or very rare problem, or I was
just talking out of my ass, whichever you prefer ;-)

OTOH the old Pentium bug was also "almost never" to be
encountered in RL.

Season's Greetings.
t.

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"thanatoid" <wai...@the.exit.invalid> said this in news item

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Mhm. The first link you mention refers to Windows 3, which was retired about
20 years ago. The second link is an single and unconformed report by the
owner of a Vista machine that pressing (=) will crash his machine. This is
not quite what I expected when you wrote "It is *well known* that the
Windows Calculator has *always* been faulty". The words "antique" and
"exotic/unconfirmed" come to my mind.

[thanatoid]

"Pegasus [MVP]" <ne...@microsoft.com> wrote in

news:#P$9HkOhK...@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

<SNIP>

> Mhm. The first link you mention refers to Windows 3, which
> was retired about 20 years ago. The second link is an
> single and unconformed report by the owner of a Vista
> machine that pressing (=) will crash his machine. This is
> not quite what I expected when you wrote "It is *well
> known* that the Windows Calculator has *always* been
> faulty". The words "antique" and "exotic/unconfirmed" come
> to my mind.

Well, I /did/ say

>> So it appears it's an old-sh and/or very rare problem, or
>> I was just talking out of my ass, whichever you prefer ;-)

OTOH, I remembered after I sent that just a few days ago I saw
someone say somewhere that the WC was NFG, and said that doing
/something like/ (I can't remember, how could I) 20.00 - 20.01
gave an impossible result. I tried it and it WAS impossible and
incorrect. Anyway, who cares.

OTOH I tend to exaggerate and overgeneralize and I should never
have been born - I'm not joking, you just don't know me yet,
since I have barely started messing with XP and am new to
/these/ groups.