Description
This package demonstrates what I have in mind with regard to "principled assessment" techniques. The package provides documents that can be opened in various spreadsheet implementations to assess how OpenFormula provisions apply to and fit with the particular approach.
This is an example of the kind of package that I imagine being available in an activity to bring together implementers and interested experts to assess OpenFormula concepts and how they provide some precision in recognizing and calibrating discretionary features of implementations. The idea is to assess OpenFormula and give implementers a way to see how that is useful in relating implementations to OpenFormula provisions. The idea is not to stamp out deviations according to some rule but to recognize that there will be differences and deviations and that there is room for them while also having ways to find a basis for interoperability.
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This initial version simply demonstrates some characteristics around the exact, precise, and strict representations of integers and functions on such integers in typical support for Numerical type data.
Although the spreadsheets include tabulations of some comparative results, the purpose is not to compare implementations but to assess the OpenFormula provisions and see how clearly those provisions fit with discretionary variations among implementations.
The file NumCheck-0.10.txt within the package provides more details on the approach and how to use the current versions of the spreadsheet documents.
