Dear Morten, answer to your last question first:
> What exactly is the "GNUmeric portable app version"? http://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnumeric_portable You can obtain LibreOfficePortable there as well, for example. In this context, "portable" means that you can run a "portable" app from a USB stick attached to any PC running a recent version of MS-Win, and take all your personal settings with you; no administrative privileges neccessary for installation, no registry entries etc. very handy for the "mobile workforce"... of course, portable apps might use code of Win standard libraries. > We are not supposed to have anything like magic brackets. > We don't even have code for it. I appreciate this opinion very much, as I hate "unkown unknows"... Here's the link to the paper in which W. Kahan complains about this phenomenon: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf The "magic bracket" subject is treated in "ยง2: Errors Designed Not To Be Found" on page 3 ff. I used the 1/2^n approach in order to find out how many trailing bits are cleared. > Could you please file a bug for this at bugzilla.gnome.org with a test > sheet? I promise to do that this weekend; I'm a bit busy right now because I'll leave for a two days business trip tomorrow morning. Please find attached the Win-version of my sheet. My Linux-GNUmeric was able to open it (sorry, but I'm on Win now and in a hurry...). All the best Schorsch
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