<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Decimal precision fail in addition" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135103#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Decimal precision fail in addition" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135103">bug 135103</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:michael.warner.ut+libreoffice@gmail.com" title="Michael Warner <michael.warner.ut+libreoffice@gmail.com>"> Michael Warner</a> <pre>(In reply to Mike Kaganski from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=135103#c3">comment #3</a>) > (In reply to Michael Warner from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=135103#c2">comment #2</a>) > > That said, one could argue that it would be more user friendly if > > the formatting of a cell containing an equation (and the sum in the corner) > > defaulted to the number of decimal places shown to the minimum (or maximum) > > number of decimal places entered in any referenced cell containing a number. > > In the example provided, it just doesn't make sense to display a result to > > 14 places when at most 2 are provided. > > That is over-simplification. So for this formula: > > > = <cell with 1> + <cell with 10> ^ <cell with -5> > > all cells are shown with default formatting; all are whole numbers. Are you > telling we need to show "1" instead of "1.00001"? I'm not telling you you "need" to do anything. I can't tell you what to do. > > It's very difficult to come with a reasonable default precision (and > analyzing the formula, taking into account display format, with its optional > digits "#", display of multiples of 1000, scientific notation, percents, > etc, may be very expensive and error-prone); IIRC Eike ~recently changed the > default to "show as many as fit in column", but I may be wrong. Difficult to get it right in all cases, but we might be able to get 80% of them right for 20% of the effort. I don't know, it was just a thought. Ignore it if you don't like it, I think I'm done with this thread.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>