gnuplot-bugs

[Gnuplot-bugs] Bug in gnuplot?

[H.T. S. <H.T...@He...>]

Hello,

I probably found a bug in gnuplot
(Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
  last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004
  System: Linux 2.6.9-1.667).

Some divisions seem to give a zero result, while it should be 0.04. See 
the following printout:

gnuplot> print 4/100
0
gnuplot> print 2/50
0
gnuplot> print 1/25
0
gnuplot> print 2/50.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
0.04
gnuplot> print 2/49.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
0.04



Regards,

Tjerk Steenstra

Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] Bug in gnuplot?

[<br...@ph...>]

H.T. Steenstra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I probably found a bug in gnuplot

No, you haven't.  You just didn't read (or understand) enough of the 
documentation to know that this:

> Some divisions seem to give a zero result, while it should be 0.04. 

is wrong.  They should not, because they're clearly documented 
otherwise.  See "help expressions".