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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: using kspread
From:       Laurent Montel <lmontel () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-12-06 6:58:14
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Le Wednesday 05 December 2001 22:14, John Dailey a écrit : 
> look at the "fabs" function in the formula editor. 
> 
> =A1 + fabs(B1) 
> 
> This kind of brings up a design issue -- anyone who doesn't code in C isn't 
> going to look up absolute value under "f" in an alphabetical list.  Should 
> this be renamed, or at least given a synonym of "abs(x)" or "absolute(x)" 
> or something like that? 
 
It's right, I will add this reference. 
 
Thanks 
Regards. 
 
 
> 
> John Dailey 
> 
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 15:41 pm, john and carol wrote: 
> > I want to apply a simple formula to the items in a column. 
> > I would appreciate a hint as to how to do it. 
> > 
> > For example,  The value in column c is equal to the value in column a + 
> > the absolute value of the item in column b. 
> > 
> > Could you provide a hint for using the absolute value symbol? 
> > Thanks. 
> > John 
 

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