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Subject: Re: [office-formula] office-2246
Andreas, From below: > Well, both Openoffice and Gnumeric require equality (probably subject to > some plus/minus epsilon). We could say that SUM(/Probability/) = 1 must > evaluate to true. OK, does anyone have a problem with that change? Thanks! Patrick Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:28 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote: > >> Andreas, >> >> Thanks! >> >> One question: >> >> Under constraints it reads: >> >> >>> * >>> >>> The sum of the probabilities in /Probability/ must equal 1. >>> >>> >> Err, isn't the sum going to depend on rounding errors? >> >> That is to say the sum of the probabilities must not exceed 1. >> >> Yes? >> >> Thinking that equaling exactly one may be a test that some evaluators >> may not be able to meet. >> > > > Well, both Openoffice and Gnumeric require equality (probably subject to > some plus/minus epsilon). We could say that SUM(/Probability/) = 1 must > evaluate to true. > > We definitely can't change it to "must not exceed 1" if we want to > encode what current spreadsheet applications do. > > Andreas > > > > >> Hope you are having a great evening! >> >> Patrick >> >> PS: Signing off for the night. >> >> Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: >> >>> I am attaching an odf file containing a proposed adjustment to the >>> description of PROB. >>> >>> I could not discover any reasonable way of attaching this tot eh IORA >>> issue directly (and needed some math formatting). >>> >>> Andreas >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >>> generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >>> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >>> > > -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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