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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KSpread formulas
From:       Ariya Hidayat <ariya () tf ! itb ! ac ! id>
Date:       2002-05-22 12:14:53
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> I agree with everything here, the question is what to prioritize.  How much
> can we accomplish before early July?  In my mind, the most important thing to
> do is to separate out the KSpreadValue class (or adjust the KSValue class for
> this purpose).  Right now there are several bugs in the system where there
> are rounding errors, and I would like to see us use something like the gnu MP
> library.

I also agree that KSpreadValue, perhaps along KSpreadFormat, should come
first.

> I had already started to separate the value out of the cell class, but stopped
> because I'm not sure how we want to handle numeric data.  Do we want to keep
> using double precision floats?  Or try to use some kind of high precision
> library?  What opinions do people have?

IMHO just keep the double. This is not the right time to move to use gnu
MP. I believe we can go with that later. About rounding error, take
machine epsilon into account, like what Gnumeric does.


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