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Posted to issues@openoffice.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2013/05/27 14:26:18 UTC

[Bug 24271] Mathematical error in Calc, -4^2

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=24271

Andre <aw...@googlemail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |awf.aoo@googlemail.com
         Resolution|INVALID                     |WONTFIX

--- Comment #35 from Andre <aw...@googlemail.com> ---
For what it's worth, I change status to WONTFIX. 

There are reasons for both variants:

a) -4^2 = -16 is mathematically correct
b) -4^2 = 16 is how MS Office does it

Obviously we can not do both at the same time

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