On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:26:52AM +0200, Christian Ritter wrote:
> 6. (already mentioned in a bug report): The (implicit) handling of some 
> matrix calculations is inconsistent with what Excel does. On first 
> sight, the Excel way is not all that "logical", but it's extremely 
> practical. For example, Xmat*Weight where Xmat is a nxp matrix and 
> Weight a nx1 vector results in WXmat where all columns of X are (scalar) 
> multiplied by Weight. Gnumeric does this only for the first column. The 
> same works when Weight is a 1xp vector. In this case the resulting WXmat 
> has the rows of Xmat (scalar) multiplied by weight. A third example is 
> the behavior of =if(vector=transpose(vector),1,0) . If the elements of 
> vector are different, this generates an identity matrix under Excel. 
> Under gnumeric, this doesn't work.

This will be patched in 1.7.2 due out tonight.
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