Whats up with KCalc?

[Parv]

in message <ef10de9a05071203165b346ce1 at mail.gmail.com>,
wrote Nikolas Britton thusly...
>
> KCalc says:
> 44 + 1 = 45 and that:
> 45 + 1 = 46.00000000000000710542735760100185871124
> 
> Last time I checked 45 + 1 = 46, but I haven't kept my math skills up
> to date so I could be wrong.

Well, did you try any other calculating software?  grpn, perl, and
dc gave me 46(.00000...) even after asking for a result upto 20
digits.

Here is a naive guess: kcalc stores the number in such a way that it
causes the abnormality as above(?).


  - Parv

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