Re: [office-formula] Groups - OpenDocument Formula Specification2008-12-21 (ODT) (OpenDocument-formula-20081221.odt) uploaded

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

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 17:20 +0100, Eike Rathke wrote:
> On Sunday, 2008-12-21 17:13:43 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 
> > > - PERCENTRANK() much better semantic description.

> > perhaps rather than Xa and Xb some nonsubscripted names should be used
> 
> Any idea for nonsubscripted names?

well Y and Z, m and M, X' and X''...
> 
> > and it should be clarified that Xa is the larges tnumber smaller than X
> > and Xb the smallest number larger than X.
> 
> Good.
> 
> > What is "Despite its name, PERCENTRANK returns a fraction between 0 and
> > 1 inclusive, rather than a percentage." supposed to mean? A percentage
> > is just a number formatted in a certain way.
> 
> True. "The eyes of the beholder" ... the suggested text was written from
> UI perspective. We can remove that for the file format spec.

I would prefer to see it removed.

Personally I find it disturbing when one claims that 4/100 is different
from 4 x 1/100 

:-)

Andreas