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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Charles <millarc@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Suggested change to Manual 3.5.9 example table
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:46:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8313.1342046771@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> of "Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:38:58 +0200." <CAMXnza3-Y+gN9d7qSyFHGPoqmWCU4zddJFA4fXuc0sL+BJXtfw@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-11 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-11 14:11 Suggested change to Manual 3.5.9 example table Charles
2012-07-11 14:26 ` suvayu ali
2012-07-11 22:23   ` Charles
2012-07-11 22:38     ` suvayu ali
2012-07-11 22:46       ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-07-12  1:32         ` Charles
2012-08-02 15:41           ` Bastien
2012-08-02 17:44             ` Charles
2012-07-11 15:30 ` Nick Dokos

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