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Serious bug in beta 4/16 - jonmoore - 04-18-2021 06:58 PM

Reporting this here as it's a real showstopper.

All command instantiations on the CAS home are prepended by the word CAS.

[Image: HXOc29]

Obviously, this should only happen on the Numeric home screen. If the user doesn't first delete the CAS header, all functions fail on the CAS home screen.

This bug is present on both the hardware and emulator.


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - trojdor - 04-18-2021 07:21 PM

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing...


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - TheLastMillennial - 04-18-2021 07:49 PM

Everything looks and works normally on my G2. I even tried multiple CAS settings but still could not reproduce. Perhaps try resetting the calculator?


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - toml_12953 - 04-18-2021 08:29 PM

(04-18-2021 06:58 PM)jonmoore Wrote:  Reporting this here as it's a real showstopper.

All command instantiations on the CAS home are prepended by the word CAS.

[Image: HXOc29]

Obviously, this should only happen on the Numeric home screen. If the user doesn't first delete the CAS header, all functions fail on the CAS home screen.

This bug is present on both the hardware and emulator.

I don't have that problem on my G2 or my emulator. I'm using these settings:

Angle Measure: Radians
Number Format: Standard
Integers: Decimal
Simplify: Minimum
Exact: on
Complex: on
Use √: on
use i: on
Principal: on
Increasing: off
Recursive Evaluation: 25
Recursive Replacement: 1
Recursive Function: 100
Epsilon: 0.000000000001
Probability: 1e-15
Newton: 60


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - akmon - 04-18-2021 09:10 PM

I do have the same problem on my G2 unit. Same example CAS.solve in CAS mode. Tried to insert same settings above described but still no changes. How strange.


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - jonmoore - 04-18-2021 09:21 PM

Tried resetting and cold rebooting still the same problem. BTW should have mentioned this before, my unit is a G2 too.

I’ve rolled back to an earlier firmware for now and will start testing again with the next build.


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - cyrille de brébisson - 04-19-2021 06:36 AM

Hello,

found and fixed for next version.
Thanks.
Cyrille


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - toml_12953 - 04-19-2021 09:36 AM

(04-19-2021 06:36 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

found and fixed for next version.
Thanks.
Cyrille

If I may ask, why doesn't the bug appear on some calculators? The reason I ask is because I wonder if the fix will break it on those machines on which it works now.


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - jonmoore - 04-19-2021 10:41 AM

(04-19-2021 06:36 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

found and fixed for next version.
Thanks.
Cyrille

Thanks Cyrille.


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - cyrille de brébisson - 04-19-2021 02:17 PM

Hello,

It was an uninitialized variable issue..
a flag that was meant to indicate if the CAS. prefix was needed was not always initialized...
Depending on what you had in RAM prior to using the function, you could get this or that happening...

Cyrille


RE: Serious bug in beta 4/16 - David Hayden - 04-20-2021 12:36 PM

(04-19-2021 02:17 PM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Depending on what you had in RAM prior to using the function, you could get this or that happening...
If you (or anyone else) can come up with a workaround, it might encourage people to continue testing this beta.