https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85993

--- Comment #6 from [email protected] ---
Sorry, I apparently didn't get an email telling me there was a question. I am
using Linux. At the time that I found the bug, I was running Mint Petra;
however, having no use for a Linux that cannot be upgraded to a new
distribution, I have since switched to Xubuntu.

Unfortunately, during the first few hours of trying LO Calc, I discovered
(MOD() and DATE()) bugs that result in random incorrect answers caused by
improper handling of significant digits. When I reported them, I was informed
that these functions require the user to make sure the input to the functions
are of a specific format, and that they are therefore not bugs. This means that
I must read about the limitations of every function I use and keep notes I can
refer to every time I want to use a function. Since computers are supposed to
work for users, and not users for computers, this is unacceptable.

In addition, in certain professions, random incorrect answers are worse than
crashes or not having the functions at all, because lives or property could be
lost. For this reason, I see no reason to consider LibreOffice Calc for serious
work. Excel doesn't have these problems. One or both of these problems also
exist in OpenOffice Calc, GNumeric, and another fork of OpenOffice I tried
(Calligra?). Too bad everyone working on Linux wants to have their own version
instead of working together to make one version that works correctly.

You might as well close this bug and wait for someone who is forced to use
LibreOffice Calc to find it, if it still exists. I cannot afford to spend time
helping programmers fix a spreadsheet that I can't use for calculations.

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