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Posted to issues@openoffice.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2015/03/28 06:51:30 UTC

[Issue 126211] New: In calc it would be nice to format numbers as "number of most significant digits presented" since mostly 3 or 4 figures are accurate enough.

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126211

          Issue ID: 126211
        Issue Type: DEFECT
           Summary: In calc it would be nice to format numbers as "number
                    of most significant digits presented" since mostly 3
                    or 4 figures are accurate enough.
           Product: Calc
           Version: 4.1.1
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: formatting
          Assignee: issues@openoffice.apache.org
          Reporter: asbjorn.ulvstig@gmail.com

In calc it would be nice to format numbers as "number of most significant
digits presented" since mostly 3 to 5 figures are accurate enough.

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[Issue 126211] In calc it would be nice to format numbers as "number of most significant digits presented" since mostly 3 or 4 figures are accurate enough.

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126211

orcmid <or...@apache.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from orcmid <or...@apache.org> ---
Can you provide some examples, please, of how you would expect this to work and
what the format is otherwise?

(Users can of course produce relative-rounding of values by calculation, and
this would reflect their understanding of the data itself.  It would also allow
user control of the kind of rounding to be employed.  This would also be
reflected in further calculation, whereas output formatting does not touch the
internal value.)

I have changed this to a feature request.  There is not a defect in terms of
how Calc is designed to work.

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