{"id":254933,"date":"2018-04-05T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254933"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:26:55","slug":"microsoft-fixes-decade-old-bug-in-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/254933-microsoft-fixes-decade-old-bug-in-calculator.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes decade-old bug in calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has fixed a decade-old issue in the Windows Calculator, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-fixes-decade-old-windows-calculator-square-root-bug-520559.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is known as the\u00a0\u201csquare root of perfect square\u201d bug, and resulted in incorrect answers in certain scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Windows 10 Redstone 5 build 17639 is the one bringing this bugfix,&#8221; stated Softpedia.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that you can replicate the bug by opening the calculator app, calculating the square root of 4, then subtracting 2.<\/p>\n<p>The answer should be 0, but the Windows Calculator &#8220;sometimes gives the wrong answer, due to what Microsoft claims to be arbitrary precision arithmetic library&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/254783-google-voice-testing-data-calls.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Voice testing data calls<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has fixed a decade-old issue in the Windows Calculator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3022,123,807],"class_list":["post-254933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-calculator","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254935,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254933\/revisions\/254935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}