'formula', Swedish - translate or not translate mathematical functions?

[Stefan Högberg <st...@aol.com>]

Hello!

I have looked at 'formula'. 

https://translate.apache.org/sv/aoo40/formula/

It seems like the words in 'formula' are going to be used in calculations (in for example spreadsheat). I wonder if it would not be more correct to leave these words untranslated, as they are mathematical functions that should be universal. Usually, this kind of mathematical functions have the same name (the English name) all over the world. 

Here I found some documentation of these functions
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Mathematical_functions

If mathematical functions in spreadsheets are not universal, then there will be compatibility problems if spreadsheets are shared between different languages (installations of OpenOffice in different languages), and that may create problems in international cooperation.

Programs like Matlab® and other computing tools do not have different names of mathematical functions depending on the language of the user.

Anybody that can comment my thoughts about this?

/Vicinity

Re: 'formula', Swedish - translate or not translate mathematical functions?

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Stefan Högberg wrote:
> It seems like the words in 'formula' are going to be used in
> calculations (in for example spreadsheat). I wonder if it would not
> be more correct to leave these words untranslated, as they are
> mathematical functions that should be universal. Usually, this kind
> of mathematical functions have the same name (the English name) all
> over the world.

No, usually they are translated. Tip: do as Excel does (copying Excel is 
not the rule, but in this case it's very important that users can find 
the names they are used to). See
http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~trieschn/excel/excel.html

> If mathematical functions in spreadsheets are not universal, then
> there will be compatibility problems if spreadsheets are shared
> between different languages (installations of OpenOffice in different
> languages), and that may create problems in international
> cooperation.

No. If I write formulas in Italian in Calc Italian, they are written to 
the file in English; and when you open the file with Calc Swedish, they 
are translated English->Swedish on the fly. So everything works as expected.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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