Comments on: iPhone’s Calculator Pi Button Issues

By: christopher

christopher — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:10:41 +0000

yeah this is weird :-s

how is this possible… I guess pi is not treated as a number like it should. Instead the programmers assigned a pecial value to it or something :-s

By: sergio

sergio — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:14:43 +0000

or I just found out that u do this first!… 2Xpi press = u get the awnser than add up the 5… Could try (2Xpi)+5=11.28

By: sergio

sergio — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:11:05 +0000

… Ecuation.

By: sergio

sergio — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:09:48 +0000

it seems that the iPod calc igonres the pi in such a situation, but trying this works 2X(pi)+5=11.283….. by using () it knows that the pi is part of the

By: Eric March

Eric March — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:02:38 +0000

Pi R ~~Squared~~ Round!

Programmatically, I can’t even imagine how that bug would happen. It isn’t like routines evaluating BEDMAS are new, so how the hell do you screw that up? Based on the above, it’s somehow completely cutting out the middle of the equation when Pi is the right-hand factor, evaluating just 2+5, but not when it’s on the left, which makes it even more confusing because the rules of BEDMAS don’t change based on which factors are on either side of the infix unless one or both are part of separate equations evaluated on a higher priority.

Weird.