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25.0.50; [PATCH] Calc: glitches with negation of units

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From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at>
To: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 19582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19582: 25.0.50; [PATCH] Calc: glitches with negation of units
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:01:33 +0100

On Tue, Jan 13 2015, Jay Belanger wrote:

>> I propose the attached patch,
>
> Fantastic, thanks.  I'll apply the patches to Calc as soon as I get to
> my home computer.

I could do this myself, actually...

> But what did you mean when you wrote:
>    Apparently, the representation of numbers is sometimes
>    influenced by previous results in the same calc stack.

The same calculation can return an expression where some sub-expression
is a plain integer, say 100, or the corresponding float (float 1 2).
I'll provide an explicit example.

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