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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Precision setting for spreadsheet calculation
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:28:30 +0100
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To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
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Hi Michael,

these are the internals of calc, about which I cannot do much.

- Carsten

On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Michael Brand wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> You need p20f20
>> p20 is for internal computation, f20 for youput, and the table
>> gets the value through output.  Confusing, yes....
>
> | 0.1666666666666667 |
> #+TBLFM: $1 = 1 / 2 * 3; %.16f p20 f20
>
> like expected. But instead of
>
> | 0.166666666666666660 |
> #+TBLFM: $1 = 1 / 2 * 3; %.18f p20 f20
>
> which I get I would expect
>
> | 0.166666666666666667 |
> #+TBLFM: $1 = 1 / 2 * 3; %.18f p20 f20

- Carsten