From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Precision in the spreadsheet
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 17:08:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twkqunvx.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k2lm2ky5.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com
On Tuesday, 1 Mar 2016 at 11:59, Nick Dokos wrote:
> 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.
Actually, surprisingly (to me), it appears not. This simple example
gives different results depending on the formatting of the first entry:
#+begin_src org
,* table
| 0.1 |
| 1. |
| 10. |
,#+TBLFM: @1$1=1/8;%.1f::@2$1=@-1*10::@3$1=@-1*10
#+end_src
--
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.91.1, Org release_8.3.4-626-gb62d55
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 18:42 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
2016-03-01 17:08 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2016-03-01 19:19 ` Nick Dokos
2016-03-01 18:39 ` Achim Gratz
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