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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Accuracy of calculation in Fill"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90419#c4">Comment # 4</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Accuracy of calculation in Fill"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90419">bug 90419</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jvsg1303@gmail.com" title="Jaskaran Singh <jvsg1303@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jaskaran Singh</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Eike Rathke from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=90419#c1">comment #1</a>)
<span class="quote">> While generally all floating point numbers that are not exactly
> representable in an IEEE 754 double lose precision, this specific case of
> filling a series of numbers could be improved by using multiplication
> instead of incrementing (adding delta) values.
>
> Actually this shouldn't be too hard to solve, I'm creating an EasyHack of
> this.
> Code pointer is sc/source/core/data/table4.cxx ScTable::Fill() and
> subroutines.</span >
How would multiplication result in incrementing the value? And how would that
result in less error?Any Mathematical clues would be nice. And also , how to
reproduce this bug?</pre>
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