From: "Rainer Thiel" <r.thiel@uni-jena.de>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: decimal fractions when summing up large numbers
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:15:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6b6c7740809240815t2987d251sc28cedba57409ff7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I have a problem I am confident there is a solution to. I even
suspect it may be explained in the manual, but can't for the life of
me find it:
Summing up small numbers in tables isn't a problem even when they have
digits after the decimal point. For example, org-table-sum applied on
the table
| 10000.7 |
| 10000.5 |
| 10000.3 |
correctly gives 30001.5. On the other hand, applied on the table
| 100000.7 |
| 100000.5 |
| 100000.3 |
org-table-sum gives 300002, the correctly rounded value of 300001.5,
which would be the exact value.
How can I make org-table-sum deliver the exact value?
If this is explained in the manual, please point me to the relevant section.
Many thanks in advance
Rainer
--
Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiel
Institut für Altertumswissenschaften
07737 Jena, Germany (EU)
r.thiel@uni-jena.de
next reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 15:16 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-24 15:15 Rainer Thiel [this message]
2008-09-24 15:38 ` decimal fractions when summing up large numbers Carsten Dominik
2008-09-24 15:49 ` Bernt Hansen
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