From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rainer Thiel" Subject: decimal fractions when summing up large numbers Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:15:59 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.thiel@uni-jena.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiW5y-0003RX-SD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiW5x-0003PL-Is for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54370 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiW5x-0003P9-9h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:01 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f12.google.com ([209.85.217.12]:36435) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiW5x-0002fs-3E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:01 -0400 Received: by gxk5 with SMTP id 5so5908790gxk.18 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode I have a problem I am confident there is a solution to. I even suspect it may be explained in the manual, but can't for the life of me find it: Summing up small numbers in tables isn't a problem even when they have digits after the decimal point. For example, org-table-sum applied on the table | 10000.7 | | 10000.5 | | 10000.3 | correctly gives 30001.5. On the other hand, applied on the table | 100000.7 | | 100000.5 | | 100000.3 | org-table-sum gives 300002, the correctly rounded value of 300001.5, which would be the exact value. How can I make org-table-sum deliver the exact value? If this is explained in the manual, please point me to the relevant section= . Many thanks in advance Rainer --=20 Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiel Institut f=FCr Altertumswissenschaften 07737 Jena, Germany (EU) r.thiel@uni-jena.de