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Subject: Re: [office-formula] Editing example
Eike Rathke wrote: > Unfortunately, replacing the entire section about complex numbers with > a reference to ISO 11404 and some arbitrary conversion to a string > representation doesn't nearly reflect reality of spreadsheets. I agree with Eike; as Eike notes, current spreadsheets all use type Text (string) to represent complex numbers (if they support complex numbers at all). > It was > thought of to allow an _additional_ "real" complex data type, which > AFAIK no spreadsheet application implements yet and is not specified by > us. All IM*() functions nevertheless must accept the textual form of > arguments for interoperability. --- David A. Wheeler
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