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Subject: What do you think of -4^2 ?

From: Christin LIVINE <lcn@mail.pf>
To: office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:47:30 -1000

Hi,

What do you think of -4^2 ?

Depend of spreadsheet softwares (Excel, OpenOffice, Quattro, Lotus…), 
the result is -16 or 16.

With math softwares (scilab, maxima, R r-project, SpeQ…), the result is -16.

You can see a bug report for OpenOffice : 
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24271

Thank you.
Bye.

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          LIVINE Christin    ~~~~X8