bug#1018: 23.0.60; Calculator Units Table "weirdness"

[David Hansen]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:26:54 -0500 Jay Belanger wrote:

> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
> ...
>>>>From the units table (u v in calc):
>>
>>  tsp          492892159375 10^-11 ml      Teaspoon
>
> The values are stored that way, instead of as a float, when they are
> exact.

What exactly is "exact"?  Just to be a bit pedantic: the "meter" (and
therefore every measure of length/surface/volume) is *not* exact, it's
an experimentally determined quantity (the length that light travels
1/299792458 seconds).

David