From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Cecil Westerhof <CecilWesterhof@xs4all.nl>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with lisp code in spreadsheet
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:14:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e4a77e5b8fa3274e12ce0d4c4d53f0a@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182016207.6246.127.camel@Barebusta.DecebalComp>
On Jun 16, 2007, at 19:50, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> In a row I have the following formula's:
> =$3
> ='(getHours $2);%.2f
> ='(/ 67 0.72);%.1f
> ='(/ $3 (getHours $2));%.1f
> This gives:
> 67
> 0.72
> 93.1
> 0.0
>
> I would expect the last two to return the same number. Why is this not
> the case?
>
> When I change the last formula to:
> ='(/ 67 (getHours $2));%.1f
> I get:
> 93.5
>
> What is happening here?
Since I don't know exactly what getHours does, I cannot be sure.
The most likely reason though is that $3 and $2 are interpolated into
Lisp expressions as strings, not as numbers.
See the discussion of the N mode flag in
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/org.html#Formula-syntax-
for-Lisp
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-16 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-16 17:50 Problem with lisp code in spreadsheet Cecil Westerhof
2007-06-16 22:14 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-06-17 6:22 ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-06-17 9:56 ` Carsten Dominik
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