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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 2 10:48:25 -0800 2007 ------- As for sign convention, I guess I don't have a big problem with the convention, "mixed signs returns negative GCD, same sign returns positive". It has a certain symmetry. To extend to an arbitrary number of arguments, use even/odd parity. I think this is what the current implementation does -- if so, the documentation needs to be clear. As for nonintegers, Mathworld defines it for rationals, which makes mathematical sense to me. Under that definition, GCD(1.2;2.4) = GCD(1.2;3.6) = 1.2. It may be that the implementor was trying for something along these lines, but didn't get all the way there. I worry about the difficulties (both for the implementor and potential users) of the definition on noninteger rationals, because rounding in the conversion between binary floats and decimal representations may cause unexpected results. Ditto for doing integer arithmetic algorithms on floats. We'd have to be very careful about defining and testing the behavior, but without a clear idea of who'd use it. This isn't a problem for symbolic math packages like Mathematica which know about rational numbers. Another source to check is the OpenFormula specification-in-development, available from http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=office-formula . It appears to follow the OO documentation, so it will likely need updating as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
