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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED INVALID - Are FLOSS doomed to be buggy because famous closed sources software are (just for the sake of compatibility)??"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138996">bug 138996</a>
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<td>RESOLVED
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<td>https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114929
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED INVALID - Are FLOSS doomed to be buggy because famous closed sources software are (just for the sake of compatibility)??"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138996#c1">Comment # 1</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED INVALID - Are FLOSS doomed to be buggy because famous closed sources software are (just for the sake of compatibility)??"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138996">bug 138996</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
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<pre>First of all, this is an invalid issue. Its question ("Are FLOSS doomed to be
buggy because famous closed sources software are (just for the sake of
compatibility)??") has nothing to do with problems that bug tracker is used
for.
Then, it is wrong when (emotionally) discussing *correct* behavior of
LibreOffice (and Excel). In "-4^2", the unary minus is not an operation, it is
*part of mathematical notation for negative numbers*, while in "0-4^2", the
minus is a binary operation that has its precedence relative to other math
operations. And no, it's wrong to think that three different things (minus as
part of negative number notation; minus as unary negation - as in -(2+5); and
minus as binary subtraction operation) have the same rules of application /
precedence. When used as part of negative number notation, it is considered
prior to *any* operation you might want to apply to the negative number.
It's a different thing that users sometimes don't know math well enough; there
is <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - Make =-3^2 unambiguous by automatically adding brackets"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=114929">tdf#114929</a> that suggests automatic bracketing for this.</pre>
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