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Excel 2007 Arithmetic
Hello, All!
According to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/ it looks like Excel is having trouble either displaying or using 2^16. I'd really like to see the sloppy code that causes this! James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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And apparently discovered / reported by a " Molham Serry" in the Public.Excel group on the 22nd. http://tinyurl.com/338gjd (146 messages) -- Jim Cone San Francisco, USA http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware (Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming) "James Silverton" wrote in message Hello, All! According to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/ it looks like Excel is having trouble either displaying or using 2^16. I'd really like to see the sloppy code that causes this! James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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Jim wrote on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:38:51 -0700:
JC And apparently discovered / reported by a " Molham Serry" JC in the Public.Excel group on the 22nd. JC http://tinyurl.com/338gjd (146 messages) JC -- JC Jim Cone I wasn't implying that I had discovered anything about the binary representation except to wonder if it might be some sort of overflow problem and a prime example of warning programmers "If it ain't broke don't fix it". James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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Perhaps it was "fixed" to allow multi-threaded calculations, or to improve
performance of calculations in the new large grid. I don't think MS has the resources to rewrite code for the sake of rewriting code. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "James Silverton" wrote in message ... Jim wrote on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:38:51 -0700: JC And apparently discovered / reported by a " Molham Serry" JC in the Public.Excel group on the 22nd. JC http://tinyurl.com/338gjd (146 messages) JC -- JC Jim Cone I wasn't implying that I had discovered anything about the binary representation except to wonder if it might be some sort of overflow problem and a prime example of warning programmers "If it ain't broke don't fix it". James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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Let's have a contest to see who can write the best algorithm to parse
the arithmetic with up to 64 levels of function nesting from a text string. You first. We'll post it up on some OpenSource discussion board for them to decide how sloppy it is. On Sep 28, 6:06 pm, "James Silverton" wrote: Hello, All! According tohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/ it looks like Excel is having trouble either displaying or using 2^16. I'd really like to see the sloppy code that causes this! James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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»iliace« wrote:
Let's have a contest to see who can write the best algorithm to parse the arithmetic with up to 64 levels of function nesting from a text string. You first. We'll post it up on some OpenSource discussion board for them to decide how sloppy it is. I doubt anyone will be able to replicate the bug... becaust it is not caused by a sloppy parser or a sloppy calculation engine, but by a buggy threshold value in some data representation decision that is primarily done to save memory. So perhaps some == check was done with an epsilon that should have been an exact ==. Maybe reading the OOXML specs could give a hint about this (specifically, reading how Excel stores numbers in files), but I don't think so (I just expect OOXML to store numbers as text). The specs of the binary XLS formats could more likely give it away, but these are not public. On Sep 28, 6:06 pm, "James Silverton" wrote: Hello, All! According tohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/ it looks like Excel is having trouble either displaying or using 2^16. I'd really like to see the sloppy code that causes this! |
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