John W. Kennedy wrote:
> This is not a bug. Carrying out results to an indefinite number of digits > requires using a whole program just to add two numbers, ... but the computer > is slowed down by a factor of 10 or 100 or 1000 to one. I suspect that it is more than that. In a programming class I took, one of the other students wrote a spreadsheet that could handle numbers with 100 digits of precision. It took most of a day for it to add two cells together. [Granted, the Apple //e wasn't a speed demon.] > OpenOffice.org cannot, and I don't know offhand of any other spreadsheet that > can. Once you get beyond roughly ten digits of precision, you need a program that is designed for the degree of precision that is needed. You could write a spreadsheet to do that, but doing so is incredible painful. The more digits of precision that are required, the more likely you are to have to write your own math library functions. xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
