Re: [office-formula] period

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

Hi Patrick,

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 20:38 -0400, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Sorry if that was obscure. My question was the absence of a single 
> definition of "period" to mean "time period" unless further defined for 
> a particular function.
> 
> Is that clearer?
> 

Yes this is much clearer.

But I don't think it is a good idea: I cannot imagine any (financial)
function in which the definition of "period" as "time period" would be
sufficient. So I think that if we have any function in which we fail to
define that argument we should fix those definitions. Typically there
are several time periods associated with any situation that a general
definitions would not suffice.

Andreas

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