[Libreoffice] Bug in new LINEST implementation

[Kohei Yoshida]

CC'ing Regina's reply to the list...

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 21:17 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Kohei,
> 
> Kohei Yoshida schrieb:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:00 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> could you please have a look at
> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37326
> >>
> >> It looks not severe, but you get the error likely, if you use LINEST to
> >> get the coefficients of an interpolation polynomial. In those cases
> >> users have often x=0 among the known points. If would be nice to get the
> >> bug fixed in the new LINEST implementation before it it delivered. I
> >> think, that the patch has nothing dangerous.
> >
> > Yeah I agree.  The change is pretty safe and am willing to give you a
> > sign-off for the -3-4 inclusion.  But can you confirm that you are
> > submitting your patch under LGPLv3+/MPL 1.1 ?  Then I can push this to
> > the -3-4 branch.
> 
> Yes, I submit the patch under LGPLv3+/MPL 1.1.
> 
> And all further patches will be under LGPLv3+/MPL 1.1 as long as there 
> are no other needs from your side.
> 
> >
> > If two others agree to give her sign-off's, I have no problem including
> > this in the -3-4-0 branch.
> 
> That's nice.
> 
> Kind regards
> Regina

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