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Subject: Re: Possible Bug in Table Calculations?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:35:43 -0600
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Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl> writes:
> Currently, Org uses cals with only 5 significant digits, this is the
> cause for this accuracy.  You can change this per equation by
> including something like "n8" or "f8" into the mode string, like
>
>   @5$1=vsum(@2..@-1);n8%.2f

Ah, I totally glossed over the n8 format.  Thanks.

> Maybe I should actually do this by default.  Yes, I wil, do so.
> Better questions about too wide fields than inaccurate calculations.

I agree, and thanks!

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