From koffice  Tue Jun 29 17:31:14 1999
From: weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:31:14 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: KSpread math/ Goose
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Hi,

Cool that someone has a look at goose. I dont have the time.

If there are any questions regarding integration with KSpread and needed
interfaces feel free to ask me. There is already one for interacting
with KDiagramm. We could easily extend that one.

Bye
Torben


On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, zedlwski wrote:

> I mentioned a little while ago that Goose was an LGPLed stats library that's
> used (very slightly) by some GNOME stuff but that it was designed to be pretty
> portable.  So I looked into it a little more, and it looks really great.  I
> mean, it'd provide regressions, great sorting, permutations, deviations,
> standard distibutions, min, max, all that stuff, really easily.  If nobody else
> minds, I'd like to give a go at throwing a KOM wrapper around it, because I've
> been meaning to learn how to do that for a while.  I'm going to be studying a
> LOT of stats and mathematical programming next year, so eventually I'd like to
> start adding in a few more features.  Maybe I could just give an overall shot
> at filling up that "Data" menu item a little bit more.  I'd really like to see
> KSpread support at least all the mathematical functions of, say, StarCalc
> (which is a surprisingly easy goal) by 1.0.  
> Anybody have objections?
> --JZ
> 
>