From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: suvayu ali Subject: Re: Suggested change to Manual 3.5.9 example table Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:26:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4FFD89AD.1030707@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Soxs4-0004uB-V1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:26:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Soxry-0003sW-KQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:26:28 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:40123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Soxry-0003sC-Df for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:26:22 -0400 Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so1465142ggm.0 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:26:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FFD89AD.1030707@verizon.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Charles Cc: emacs-orgmode Mode On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Charles 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? > It's a C-style format specifier. Take a look in the following link for a more comprehensive description. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.