https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50299
--- Comment #14 from Qubit <[email protected]> 2012-05-24 09:44:58 PDT --- (In reply to comment #11) > > Concerning a warning hint: > Please read the license! That's all we can do. I am one of the generation > where > engineers use slide rules (I'm still using it today for my work). Its > precision > is a little below CALC, but I am very successful with it and never read a > warning hint "If you use this tool for construction of a bridge ...." well thankfully slide rules never had to come with a shrink-wrap/click-wrap license :-) My physics teacher in high school had a big wall-mounted slide rule and would race us if we weren't moving fast enough on calculations. I've never used one in my work, but I still have a couple that were getting tossed, and one that sat by my grandfather's drafting table. Regarding a warning for users, I do think it could be helpful for the average user to know that floating point representations/calculations can introduce subtle errors. If we don't want to put it in the docs for LO specifically, perhaps it should be mentioned in some kind of more general-purpose 'intro to computing' book that I can recommend to new computer users. Maybe the people at FLOSSManuals have something like that already. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
