Windows calculator does not accept it's own copied text as input

sygnus21 · 01 Sep 2017

essenbe said:

I didn't insert the e-6, just the rest of the number.

Which is what I did in my initial post

essenbe said:

Yes, too many numbers. I tried with 3 more numbers and got invalid input.

As a test I removed the last 3 numbers before the "e" and it worked...

Windows calculator does not accept it's own copied text as input-calculator-pasted-number2.png

So yeah, it appears there are too many numbers in the equation.

Bree · 01 Sep 2017

cereberus said:

This reminds me of the old joke....

I prefer the version I heard at Uni while doing an engineering degree.

It starts with a mathematician and an engineer at a disco who spot a couple of girls the other side of the dance floor. It's the engineer who proposes a novel way of crossing to ask them to dance.... go half way, then half the remaining distance, repeat until we get over there. The mathematician says "but we'll never reach them" to which the engineer replies "well... close enough for all practical purposes."

cereberus · 02 Sep 2017

Bree said:

I prefer the version I heard at Uni while doing an engineering degree.

It starts with a mathematician and an engineer at a disco who spot a couple of girls the other side of the dance floor. It's the engineer who proposes a novel way of crossing to ask them to dance.... go half way, then half the remaining distance, repeat until we get over there. The mathematician says "but we'll never reach them" to which the engineer replies "well... close enough for all practical purposes."

As I said, I sanitised the post - lol.