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User ab changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED
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Priority|P3 |P4
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Resolution| |WONTFIX
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Target milestone|OOo 2.0.1 |OOo Later
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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 3 00:41:40 -0700
2005 -------
It's not that simple. Nobody just copies an internal buffer to display it. To
do that a conversion from binary double format to ASCII has to be done.
And that's only one of the places that can cause such runding problems:
- It can be caused by converting ASCII to number
- It can be caused by converting number to ASCII
- It can be caused by arithmetic operations itself
With no algorithm you can guarantee 100% correct results for all numbers.
The Basic programmers - and also programmers in any other programming
language - have to car about displaying numerical results properly. And it's
no problem, just use
MsgBox(Round(a, 2))
and everything looks fine.
Problems like this cannot be solved in general. And as I already wrote: VB
has exactly the same problem. If it was so simple to fix as you've suggested
don't you think they would have done it?
By the way: I tried your example in a StarOffice 5.2 and the same "wrong"
result is displayed. So that's by far no regression. But I don't consider it to
be a real bug anyway.
-> P4 , -> OOo later , -> WONTFIX, but I keep it open for now.
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