Temperature Conversion

[John Colvin]

(01-28-2014 06:26 PM)jgreenb2 Wrote:  Don't know if this is a bug, but's it's dissapointing anyway.

As many of you know, it's been really, really cold in the US this winter.
I was trying to tell my European colleagues just how cold it was this morning:

−13_°F▶_°C [enter]
which unfortunately parses as:

-CONVERT(13.00_°F,0.00_°C)

instead of:

CONVERT(-13.00_°F,0.00_°C)

The difference between these two is > 35°C !!

I do my temperature conversions in Home/rpn view with no problems.
Enter -13 and press the Units key.Then select Temperature->F and <Enter>, which
places -13_F on the stack. Enter 1 and do the same selecting C, which places
1_C on the stack. Press Units key again, select Tools->Convert then <Enter>.
After reading about all of the parsing issues using Convert with Temperatures in
CAS view, I would think it would be better to avoid CAS altogether for conversions.