Re: [office-formula] Functions not assigned to any group

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 19:13 +0100, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Monday, 2007-11-19 11:00:54 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 
> > > LEGACY.FDIST            medium
> > > LEGACY.FINV             medium
> > > LEGACY.NORMSDIST        medium
> > > LEGACY.NORMSINV         medium
> > 
> > I guess there good be an argument made for these to be included in small
> > (virtually everybody has them already anyways) or in huge (nobody should
> > really need them exact to handle legacy documents)
> 
> I assigned them to 'medium' because the "derived" functions like FDIST
> and such are in medium as well. As the LEGACY.* functions are
> implemented by almost every spreadsheet application, I guess, we could
> as well put them into 'small' instead of 'medium', I think that's more
> a question of how "smaller" applications like Spreadsheet To Go
> implement them. As I don't have access to such an application I'm asking
> whether they do support these LEAGACY.* functions?
> 
> On the other hand, no application (IMHO) so far supports the FDIST, ...
> functions (without LEGACY.) with the Cumulative parameter, so maybe
> those functions should go into the 'large' group instead?

I think that moving these currently unsupported functions into LARGE may
be a good idea. Since these LEGACY.* functions are of a special purpose,
medium might be good for them then. I have no idea about smaller
spreadsheets like "Spreadsheet To Go".

Andreas


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Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta