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title="UNCONFIRMED - Circular reference accumulator, err:523 or miscalculation"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114482">114482</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Circular reference accumulator, err:523 or miscalculation
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.4.2.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Mac OS X (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Calc
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>a.burger@liamix.de
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<pre>Description:
To finish my spreadsheet-sequence I usually let my pupils write a little
car-racing simulation in Excel. At my new school I haven't got Excel at my
disposition, so we do everything with Calc (which is fine generally). However,
there is something that worked fine in Excel that I cannot get to work in Calc.
I need an accumulator field that adds the result of a dice-roll (simulated by
=int(rand()*6)+1) to get the current sum of all prior dice-rolls plus the
current one.
This is possible if you activate iterative calculations. But with my current
settings I most of the time get the following error:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XBpY8.png">https://i.stack.imgur.com/XBpY8.png</a>
The settings are as follows:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/H5XXb.png">https://i.stack.imgur.com/H5XXb.png</a>
I can get the iterative calculation to work if I set "Minimum cange:" to 6. But
when I press F9, the calculation is not correct. It always at least adds double
the dice-value, but oftentimes a value that seems to have no connection to the
show dice value.
In Excel this simply worked using the following settings:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/02GCR.png">https://i.stack.imgur.com/02GCR.png</a>
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zr5ic.png">https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zr5ic.png</a>
Calc's behaviour seems to be wrong, no matter what settings I enter for "steps"
and "minimum change".
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set setting according to screenshot
2. add a circular reference
3. press F9
Actual Results:
err:523 or miscalculations (seems like two iterations at a time)
Expected Results:
On every press of F9 the new "dice-value" should be calculated and added to the
accumulator field.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:57.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0</pre>
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