Bug#248499: gcalctool: should use correct order of operations in scientific mode

[Kevin McCarty]

Package: gcalctool
Version: 4.3.46-2
Severity: wishlist

gcalctool should use the standard order of operations, at least when in
scientific mode.  For instance, typing in "1 + 2 * 3 =" produces
9 when one would expect it to produce 7.  To behave otherwise as a
scientific calculator is confusing and likely to result in mistakes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages gcalctool depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.4.0.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.4.1-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-3        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.4.3-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.4.3-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.4.0.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                1.1.12-4       LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.2.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.4.0-11       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.4.0-3        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.4.0.1-12     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common       2.4.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                0.8.12-5       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.2.4-6        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.8.3-2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.2.5-5        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-0                0.1.2-2        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.9-2        GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1-5      compression library - runtime

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regards,

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Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
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