From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, r.thiel@uni-jena.de
Subject: Re: decimal fractions when summing up large numbers
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:49:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5d18rxu.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1EB2649A-3D01-4F94-982F-B6DD2718C467@uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed\, 24 Sep 2008 17\:38\:59 +0200")
Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
> turns out, org-table-sum is an old function I have not looked at for a
> long time. It used (format "%g" res) to format the final result for
> display - bad idea indeed, because that causes the unwanted rounding.
>
> I have removed this, the change has just been pushed to the git repo.
>
:)
Carsten is too fast. I was going to ship a patch that just changed %g
to %s in the format call (since that seemed to work for me) but when I
pulled the new code from git master it was already fixed.
Great job Carsten!
Rainer: Oh and thanks for bringing this up - I didn't know about C-c +
in tables until a few minutes ago. :)
-Bernt
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2008-09-24 15:15 decimal fractions when summing up large numbers Rainer Thiel
2008-09-24 15:38 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-24 15:49 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
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