Re: Parsing bug?

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

this has been repaired in the development version of gnuplot:


        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.2 patchlevel 6 
gnuplot> print 6000**4
-2086600704


        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.4 patchlevel 0-rc1
gnuplot> print 6000**4
-2086600704


        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.5 patchlevel 0
gnuplot> print 6000**4
1.296e+15


Daniel Farrell wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just tried plotting this equation,
> 
> T0 = 300
> T1 = 6000
> set xrange [T0:T1]
> f(x) = (1 - x**4/T1**4) * (1 - T0/x)
> 
> Which should have two zeros at (x=300 and x=6000). It seems that because
> the numbers have been defined as integers it give the wrong result.
> Redefining,
> 
> T0 = 300.
> T1 = 6000.
> 
> plots the correct function.
> 
> Is there a case for converting ints to floats as standard in the gnuplot
> interpreter? When using gnuplot as a user, I would expect the maths to
> just work without having to think about programming details like ints of
> floats. In a programming environment of course this is what I would
> expected.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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