Subject: bug#27765: 26.0.50; Calc b% and relch are inconsistent in algebraic and rpn modes

From: [email-masked] (Eythan Weg)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:49:49 -0400

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:54:01 +0200

 >On Jul 19 2017, [email-masked] (Eythan Weg) wrote:
   
 >> Start calc.
 >> 1 <RET>
 >> 2 <RET>
 >> b%
 >>
 >> you get on the stack 100%
 >>
 >> type 'relch(1,2)
 >> and you get 1 on the stack.
   
 >100% == 1, so they are the same.

Agreed.  However, the displays are different. Won’t expect b% and relch
behaves exactly the same?  Perhaps it does not matter.  But calc
provides c % and = for conversions from one display to the other. What
for, then?

 >Andreas.
   
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Eythan