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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun Jan 23 20:34:39 +0000 
2011 -------
Correction to previous post. My apologies:

1) Those who would want the current excel/gnumeric engineering format (using #
characters) to display numbers in the range 0 to 999.999 as non exponent
numbers. So that the end result would be a set of numbers displayed like:
100e3, 10e3, 1e3, 999, 100, 10, 1, 0, 999.999e-3, 100e-3, 10e-3, 1e-3, 100e-6,
10e-6, 1e-6 etc

2) Those who would like the exponents displayed as SI prefixes, so the end
result would be a set of numbers like:
100k, 10k, 1k, 999, 100, 10, 1, 0, 999.999m, 100m, 10m, 1m, 100u, 10u, 1u etc

3) Backwards compatibility with how the # formating character currently works in
calc

This could to be achieved by having an option inside of calc that affected how a
cell formatted using # formating characters was displayed:

"Engineering format display"
 * Standard (default)      [excel/gnumeric]
 * Engineering Alt display [as 1) above, exponents as numeric numbers]
 * Engineering SI display  [as 2) above, exponents as SI prefixes]
 * Pre calc 3.x display    [as 3) above, backwards compatibility]

I personally would be happy just if the "excel/gnumeric" option was the only one
implemented.
Other options could be added if required. For instance making the range of
numbers in "1)" that are displayed without an exponent a user definable range.


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