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The document named NumCheck 0.10 Assessment for OpenFormula Basic Numerical
Provisions (NumCheck-0.10-2010-02-26-1833.zip) has been submitted by Dennis
Hamilton to the OASIS Open Document Format Interoperability and Conformance
(OIC) TC document repository.

Document Description:
This package demonstrates what I have in mind with regard to
"principled assessment" techniques.  The package provides
documents that can be opened in various spreadsheet implementations to
assess how OpenFormula provisions apply to and fit with the particular
approach.  

This is an example of the kind of package that I imagine being available in
an activity to bring together implementers and interested experts to assess
OpenFormula concepts and how they provide some precision in recognizing and
calibrating discretionary features of implementations.  The idea is to
assess OpenFormula and give implementers a way to see how that is useful in
relating implementations to OpenFormula provisions.  The idea is not to
stamp out deviations according to some rule but to recognize that there
will be differences and deviations and that there is room for them while
also having ways to find a basis for interoperability.

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This initial version simply demonstrates some characteristics around the
exact, precise, and strict representations of integers and functions on
such integers in typical support for Numerical type data.

Although the spreadsheets include tabulations of some comparative results,
the purpose is not to compare implementations but to assess the OpenFormula
provisions and see how clearly those provisions fit with discretionary
variations among implementations.

The file NumCheck-0.10.txt within the package provides more details on the
approach and how to use the current versions of the spreadsheet documents.

View Document Details:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=36616

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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/36616/NumCheck-0.10-2010-02-26-1833.zip


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