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  1. OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
  2. OFFICE-2385

5.4.7 Infix Operator "="

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    • Type: Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Fix Version/s: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 2
    • Component/s: OpenFormula
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      Evaluators may approximate and test equality of two numeric values with an accuracy of the magnitude of the given values scaled by the number of available bits in the mantissa, ignoring some least significant bits and thus providing compensation for not exactly representable values.

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      Add to Semantics: Evaluators may approximate and test equality of two numeric values with an accuracy of the magnitude of the given values scaled by the number of available bits in the mantissa, ignoring some least significant bits and thus providing compensation for not exactly representable values.

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      General commentary under 5.4.7 Infix Operator "=" deleted.

      Created JIRA issue to call attention to it.

      "Note that in most implementations, numbers are computed using fixed-length representations in base 2 or 16, using a matissa and an exponent. This means that values such as 0.1 cannot be exactly represented (just as 1/3 cannot be exactly represented in base 10 using decimal notation). As a result, (0.1*10) will not have the same bit representation as 1. Since many spreadsheet users do not understand how computers typically represent numbers, applications may attempt to hide these differences by allowing "nearly" equal numbers to be considered equal, but applications are not required to do so.
      Note that in some user interfaces this is displayed or accepted as "=="."

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            • Assignee:
              erack Eike Rathke (Inactive)
              Reporter:
              patrick Patrick Durusau
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