From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Precision in the spreadsheet
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 11:59:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2lm2ky5.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vb56w31l.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> is it at all possible to set different precision for display and
> calculations in Org's spreadsheet? I mean, things like $1+$2;%.2f (as
> in the manual) mean (IIUC) that (1) Org should show 2 decimal figures
> and (2) further calculations which use this value also use this
> approximation. Am I right? If yes, is there a way to change this
> behavior? (I suspect not, but I wanted to make sure.)
>
I believe that internally, calculations are done in 12-decimal place
precision: the %.2f is for display only.
See org-calc-default-modes for details.
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 16:55 Precision in the spreadsheet Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-01 16:59 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2016-03-01 17:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-03-01 19:19 ` Nick Dokos
2016-03-01 18:39 ` Achim Gratz
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