From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: James Hawley <yelwah1@comcast.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rounding in org-mode tables
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:25:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad094edefba60c2a29ef698c52feb378@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eaa81743b2275ba51296e2eb957f6b3a@comcast.net>
On Aug 26, 2007, at 4:00, James Hawley wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm a relatively new emacs and org-mode user so I apologize for the
> basic nature of this question. Unfortunately, the answer is probably
> so obvious that no one has had to ask it before, and, as a result, I
> have not been able to find this subject in the mailing list. Of
> course, I may not be doing a good search, so please accept another
> apology.
>
> Anyway, all I am trying to do is to sum a column of numbers in a table
> in an org file. Here's an example:
>
> 935.15
> 6483.80
> 7419.00
> #+TBLFM: @16$4=vsum(@3$4..@4$4);%.2f
>
> The answer is obviously being rounded but I don't want that and I
> cannot figure out the undoubtedly trivial way to stop it so I get the
> answer that I want to see - 7418.95.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone offers on this simple (but frustrating for
> me) question.
Org-mode uses a relatively compact output format for calc in order
to avoid that fields get too wide. You can fix this by changing
the default format in `org-calc-default-mode' from (float 5) to (float
8)
or so, but that means each time a number is produced with many digits,
all 8 will be displayed.
The other option is to change the format on the fly, just for a specific
formula, using (again for example) an f8 flag, like
$4 = vsum($1..$3);f8
Hope this helps.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-26 18:25 UTC|newest]
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2007-08-26 2:00 Rounding in org-mode tables James Hawley
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2007-08-31 1:49 ` James Hawley
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