Re: Suggested change to Manual 3.5.9 example table

[Charles <millarc@verizon.net>]

On 7/11/2012 6:46 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Charles,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Charles <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> All I was trying to say that example should be corrected since it is
>>> confusing.
>> And here I was thinking you are asking about the format specifier! :-p
>>
>> Since you have already put in the effort to correct the table, how about
>> submitting it as a patch to doc/org.texi? You could also take this
>> opportunity to improve the text somewhat. :)
>>
> I replied to Charlie's original message but from the tenor of the replies here
> I gather nobody saw my message? But I just checked gmane and it's there, so
> I'm not sure any more: did anybody see it? Here's the message body again just
> in case:
>
> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I have searched the news groups concerning this and found nothing.
>>
>> I am attempting to learn the advance features for tables and could not
>> understand 29.7 as the result for $at=vmean(@-II..@-I);%.1f.
>>
>> I copied the table and formulas into a scratch org file, changed the
>> floating point to .2f and the result was 25.00, which I believe is
>> correct. I changed it back to .1f and 25.0 was the result.
>>
>> Is the result as given in the manual supposed to demonstrate some
>> concept that is not evident to me?
>>
> Good one.
>
> It *may* have been intended to illustrate the difference between rows
> marked with # and unmarked rows; e.g. if you go back and change a grade
> in Sam's row and press TAB, then the # rows are recalculated but the
> unmarked one is not.  So the 29.7 might have been a (now incorrect)
> remnant of a previous calculation that would have been corrected in the
> next global recalculation.
>
> However, if that's the case, a more extensive explanation would
> certainly be welcome.
>
> Nick
>
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Nick,

I did read your reply.  I thought you were suggesting the reason why the 
error occurred (which makes a lot of sense) and you were inviting 
further explanation from whoever drafted that section of the manual.

As to submitting a patch - Thank you but I have to pass, even for such a 
tinychange. Downloading, installing and learning git is a project slated 
for later this year.

Charlie