[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 80017] EDITING: Rounding error in simple calculation - no division or multipliction used

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80017

--- Comment #10 from b. <newbie-02 at gmx.de> ---
(In reply to Luuk from comment #9)

> Do you have a source where it states that any application can be used
> legally for financial calculations?
> 
> If not, then ....
> If yes, then please share the link (at least for another spreadsheet piece
> of software)

imho german tax authorities, 'DATEV', most banks and stock exchanges and plenty
'approved' bookkeeping programs claim that, it overtaxes my capa and time to
check whether they really meet this requirement, 

i have heard of two cases where stock exchanges did not, one was a small
roundoff error which went unnoticed for month ... 

i dunno if other spreadsheets are better, i know that most use doubles and have
fails, and that that's not announced by the vendors as it normally should be: 

microwave: 'don't use to dry your cat', 
Porsche: 'careful, faster than other cars', 
McDonald: 'careful, hot coffee may be hot', 
spreadsheets / calc: 'careful, the results are not necessarily accurate, expect
marginal deviations in most and glaring errors in some cases'

(may be that's somewhere in the rtfm's, i didn't as most users won't) 

i recall a few comments that considered Excel and calc to be 'not suitable for
finance', and think from experience that both are mainly used for financial
calculations, 

thus 'improvements appreciated' ...

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