[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138920] Precision issue in calc

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Mon Dec 14 23:19:46 UTC 2020


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138920

--- Comment #2 from Jonny Grant <jg at jguk.org> ---
(In reply to Uwe Auer from comment #1)
> (In reply to Jonny Grant from comment #0)
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm if this issue is resolved in latest release or 7.1 ?
> > 
> 
> Probably you won't get a confirmation about that, since there seems to be no
> issue and hence no fix. It doesn't look like an bug but correct result of
> IEEE 754 floating arithmetic (which is not to be confused with pure calculus
> in a math book).

I expected someone wouldn't want to fix this! We've seen this before with bugs
in Calc.

No user would ever expect to see 0.269985590000001  when they copy and paste
the value into an email etc.


Google Docs and Excel don't have this bug.

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