Subject: bug#40892: 26.3; emacs calculator.el: return values are truncated integers

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:14:09 +0200

On Apr 27 2020, Aitor Soroa wrote:

> The calculator.el: wrongly returns integers. For instance:
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x calculator
> 22 / 7
>
> The answer is '3'. Even worse, If I set calculator-remove-zeros to nil,
> then I get '3.000'

This is consistent with how Emacs Lisp works:

ELISP> (/ 22 7)
3 (#o3, #x3, ?\C-c)
ELISP> (/ 22 7.0)
3.142857142857143

Andreas.

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