Whats up with KCalc?

[Nikolas Britton]

On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> After you compute your answer copy and paste it into a text editor
> 
> 1 + 1 = 2.000000000000000444089209850062616169453
> 2 + 2 = 4.000000000000000888178419700125232338905
> 3 + 3 = 6
> 
> KCalc on my SuSE 9.3 PIII notebook is doing the same thing (sorta):
> "KCalc 1.8 (Using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" SUSE 9.3")"
> "build with 96-bit (long double precision)"
> 

Ok... this thing is WAY OFF... if you type in 85.49 and then hit the +
key the thing automatically jumps to
85.48999999999999488409230252727866172791!!! My SuSE box shows "85.49"
but if you copy and paste the number into a text editor it shows
85.48999... too.