Re: org-table with different conventions: decimals

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> In my current setting, the following works
>
> | 3.5 | 4.2 | 7.7 |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2
>
> Now if I want to switch to the convention used in Germany (that might be
> relevant if I want to export it later to csv, but this is a different
> topic) does work in a strange way, any comments? I would expect
>
> | 3,5 | 4,2 | (7, 7) |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2
>
>
> | 3,5 | 4,2 | 7,7    |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2

Org tables use Emacs' calc under the hood by default.
AFAIK, calc is unable to use "," as decimal point because it is reserved
as a vector separator. Which is why you got the vector addition in your
example.

Best,
Ihor