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title="REOPENED - When a column's width is increased, the subraction-result in it is off by a little."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126882">bug 126882</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="REOPENED - When a column's width is increased, the subraction-result in it is off by a little."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126882#c3">Comment # 3</a>
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title="REOPENED - When a column's width is increased, the subraction-result in it is off by a little."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126882">bug 126882</a>
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<pre>(In reply to Oliver Brinzing from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=126882#c2">comment #2</a>)
<span class="quote">> this is not a bug, this is how floating point arithmetic works.
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> please have a look at:
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> <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Simple Subtraction Error Precision"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=116853">Bug 116853</a> - Simple Subtraction Error Precision
> <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - calc subtraction imprecision"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=126552">Bug 126552</a> - calc subtraction imprecision</span >
Thank you for your feedback! I'm sorry if I'm setting the wrong Status, or if
I shouldn't have changed the Status as I write the below question--from (
<a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/REOPENED">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/REOPENED</a> ) I
thought I should set this to 'NEEDINFO', but I could not see a NEEDINFO option
in the list.
I indeed had not realised that the linked bug reports already existed.
However, if I understand correctly, that problem described should only be a
function of Binary Floating-Point, where a base-10 number is inexactly
represented as a base-2 number. As base 10 is being used for spreadsheet
calculations, shouldn't Decimal Floating-Point be used to represent the digits
exactly (within the limits of significance, and without making errors pop up in
unrelated orders of magnitude)?
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point</a>
(It is plausible that I am very confused.)</pre>
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