[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 50299] MOD shows not existing small remainder with calculated Dividend

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50299

--- Comment #14 from Qubit <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> 2012-05-24 09:44:58 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> 
> Concerning a warning hint: 
> Please read the license! That's all we can do. I am one of the generation where
> engineers use slide rules (I'm still using it today for my work). Its precision
> is a little below CALC, but I am very successful with it and never read a
> warning hint "If you use this tool for construction of a bridge ...."

well thankfully slide rules never had to come with a shrink-wrap/click-wrap
license :-)

My physics teacher in high school had a big wall-mounted slide rule and would
race us if we weren't moving fast enough on calculations. I've never used one
in my work, but I still have a couple that were getting tossed, and one that
sat by my grandfather's drafting table.

Regarding a warning for users, I do think it could be helpful for the average
user to know that floating point representations/calculations can introduce
subtle errors. If we don't want to put it in the docs for LO specifically,
perhaps it should be mentioned in some kind of more general-purpose 'intro to
computing' book that I can recommend to new computer users. Maybe the people at
FLOSSManuals have something like that already.

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