Hi Winfried,

On Thursday, 2015-10-08 07:44:07 +0200, Winfried Donkers wrote:

> I'm currently implementing the new FORECAST functions that are added to Excel 
> 2016.

Great! :)

> Mostly they use triple exponential smoothing.
> To avoid double work, am I correct that the current LO codebase does not 
> contain code that uses triple exponential smoothing?

I'm quite sure we don't have such. Not even double I guess ;-)
The only place I ran across exponential smoothing was
sc/source/ui/StatisticsDialogs/ExponentialSmoothingDialog.cxx
ScExponentialSmoothingDialog::ApplyOutput()

> I would also like to create a new source file, 
> sc/source/core/tool/interpr8.cxx, as probably a lot of code lines will be 
> added, all specifically for FORECAST.ETS functions. Any objections to that?

No, please go ahead. Would be good to have every new code related in one
place and in a separate file.

Btw, do you have access to Excel 2016 to compare results?

  Eike

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