Re: [office-formula] General comment on "if value is of type"

["David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>]

 Patrick Durusau:
> "Summary: Return the absolute value of the complex number"
> 
> That should read (leaving aside other issues):
> 
> "Summary: Return the absolute value of *a* complex number"
...
> What is at issue is that we want to define the result for any value, not 
> some value in particular, unless that is what we mean.

But wait, that doesn't seem right.  We don't want to return
the absolute value of some arbitrary complex number.
We want to return the absolute value of the specific complex
number that was passed in.  Thus, I think "the" is better.

We could say
"Summary: Return the absolute value of the complex number passed in"
but that would be too long.

--- David A. Wheeler