https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170299

Regina Henschel <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Regina Henschel <[email protected]> ---
Example: 6^24 results in 4738381338321620000 instead of 4738381338321616896. It
is rounded to 15 significant digests. And the rounded value mod 5 is zero. 

LibreOffice has no special integer arithmetic but uses the precision of
"double" data type. And from its 52 significant bits you can get only about 15
significant digits in a decimal representation of the number.

Thus it is not an "overflow" problem but a problem of precision. LibreOffice
does not consider this as bug. See
https://help.libreoffice.org/26.8/en-US/text/scalc/01/calculation_accuracy.html

The same precision problem occurs when calculating MOD(1.5^n; 5). It is only
accurate for n=1,2,3,...,14. For integers greater than 14, Excel does not
display an error message in this case. This is inconsistent in Excel.

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