<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Precision issue in calc" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138920#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Precision issue in calc" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138920">bug 138920</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:jg@jguk.org" title="Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>"> Jonny Grant</a> <pre>(In reply to Uwe Auer from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=138920#c4">comment #4</a>) > (In reply to Jonny Grant from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=138920#c2">comment #2</a>) > > > > > Google Docs and Excel don't have this bug. > > Don't call it a bug. Probably Google Sheets and Excel perform some rounding > based on some unknown idea. It's ok to request a change in arithmetic of the > application, but it is not ok to call correct IEEE 754 calculation a bug. Firstly, thank you for your reply. As software developers, like yourself Uwe, I think we all understand IEEE floating point, double precision, rounding etc. Calc is a program for users, who do sums, for accounting etc. 9.25178559 has 8 digits of decimal precision, 8.9818 has 4. Of course, every piece of software knows the result would only have 8 digits of precision. It's appropriate to display only 8 digits, by whatever rounding Calc needs to do.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>