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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 17 13:03:18 -0700 2005 ------- It all comes down to this (in python interactive shell): >>> import math >>> print math.pow( 120, 148 ) 5.23388788088e+307 >>> print math.pow( 120, 149 ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? OverflowError: math range error In other words, a current binary float-point architecture can compute 120^148 but not 120^149, which is ultimately why POISSON(149;120;false) fails. To work around this, we will need a new algorithm to compute a Poisson variable, or use decimal float-point architecture (which is slower in performance, but more accurate). Kohei --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
