https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80017
Peter Underdown <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] Severity|enhancement |major --- Comment #4 from Peter Underdown <[email protected]> --- (Props to all contributors-- thank you for a great free product) Just want to add my voice to calling this behavior a bug, requesting that it be seen in the following light: a user (such as myself today) can get bizarre results that are hard to find the cause of. And I'm a pretty good debugger of things. I was comparing calculated quantities (a running balance) to entered quantities, a very useful way of verifying data entry. My sheet was, as usual, formatting the results with 2 decimal places. So the failure of equality tests was perplexing. So in short, regardless of its presence in other software, this behavior can cause serious confusion and waste of time as each user encounters it for the first time and has to track down for themselves what is going on. It doesn't even matter whether they do so as I did by investigative debugging or by querying the (excellent, by the way) help and support system. Either way, it shouldn't be a part of normal workflow. Nobody expects rounding errors from addition. Strictly speaking this is not even rounding error-- no rounding is needed for the calculation, so the proper characterization is calculation error. Thanks -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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