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Subject: Re: [office-formula] office-2246
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:28 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote: > Andreas, > > Thanks! > > One question: > > Under constraints it reads: > > > * > > > > The sum of the probabilities in /Probability/ must equal 1. > > > Err, isn't the sum going to depend on rounding errors? > > That is to say the sum of the probabilities must not exceed 1. > > Yes? > > Thinking that equaling exactly one may be a test that some evaluators > may not be able to meet. Well, both Openoffice and Gnumeric require equality (probably subject to some plus/minus epsilon). We could say that SUM(/Probability/) = 1 must evaluate to true. We definitely can't change it to "must not exceed 1" if we want to encode what current spreadsheet applications do. Andreas > > Hope you are having a great evening! > > Patrick > > PS: Signing off for the night. > > Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > I am attaching an odf file containing a proposed adjustment to the > > description of PROB. > > > > I could not discover any reasonable way of attaching this tot eh IORA > > issue directly (and needed some math formatting). > > > > Andreas > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > -- Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow@pyrshep.ca>
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