Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] logarithimic calculation error, and linespoints clipboard copying error

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

due to integer division 5/10 is zero:
10*log10(10**(5/10))=
10*log10(10**0)=
10*log10(1)=
10*0.0=
0.0

5./10 gives the right result.


Mark Pelusi wrote:
> 
> Version 4.2 patchlevel 6 has two bugs
> 
> 1) Logarithmic calculation error
> 
> p 10*log10(10**(5/10)) w l
> incorrectly returns value of 0, while
> p 10*log10(10**(5)) w l
> correctly returns value of -50.
> 
> 2) when copying a gnuplot graph to the clipboard and pasting it to MS 
> Powerpoint, if the data set was drawn using linespoints style, then the 
> points are distorted appear as horizontal lines spread across the entire 
> graph in the exported graph.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
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