On Tue, 2005-01-02 at 21:03 -0500, Morten Welinder wrote: > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:57:55 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In view of CEILING(-2.5) == -3 and FLOOR(-2.5) == -2 > > CEIL is the sane version of CEILING. > INT is the sane version of FLOOR. > > The mistake here is to try to make sense of this. If the rounding function > group in Excel had been designed with just one iota of sense we would > not have this mess. As it is, we have. The best we can do is to offer > our sincere apologies in the help text (after we reorganize all the help > texts).
Unfortunately as a gnumeric user I open the function browser and see `ceiling'. Yes I should read the description (and then stay far away from that function) but typically we don't it is a familiar standard name so one assumes that it behaves reasonably. Seriously, I am wondering whether those XL rounding functions that don't behave sensibly could be packaged into their own little plugin, so that one could decide not to load them. In that case one wouldn't see them and keep looking to find INT and CEIL. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps and Shetland Sheep
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