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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:rb.henschel@t-online.de" title="Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de>"> <span class="fn">Regina Henschel</span></a>
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title="NEW - POWER function in Calc computes 0^0=1"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136387">bug 136387</a>
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<td>Calc
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<td>enhancement
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<td>olivier.hallot@libreoffice.org, rb.henschel@t-online.de
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - POWER function in Calc computes 0^0=1"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136387#c1">Comment # 1</a>
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title="NEW - POWER function in Calc computes 0^0=1"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136387">bug 136387</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:rb.henschel@t-online.de" title="Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de>"> <span class="fn">Regina Henschel</span></a>
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<pre>The ODF standard says:
"POWER(0,0) is implementation-defined, but shall be one of 0,1, or an Error."
6.16.46, Part4, ODF 1.3
The term "implementation-defined" means, that the exact behavior is not
specified, but the application has must document, which of the choices it uses.
>From the beginning in OpenOffice 1, POWER(0;0) returned 1. Therefore I would
not change it, because it would break existing documents.
But the documentation of the behavior of LibreOffice is missing. The page
<a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_implementation-defined_items#Functions">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_implementation-defined_items#Functions</a>
is so designed, that the implementation-defined aspects of functions have to be
documented in the online help. But that is missing for the function POWER.
Therefore I set this as bug to component Documentation.
[BTW: It would be good to check, whether the other "implementation-defined"
aspects of functions are documented.]</pre>
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