Re: [discuss] Engineering format - number support [s]

2006-11-14 Thread Nick Radonic [c]
Open Office Further to my suggestion that Engineering format be supported in the OO spread sheet, I found this formatting code on the web - consider incorporating it in some form def number_to_engineering(value, precision=3) expof10 = ((Math.log10(value)/3.0).floor)*3 value *= 10**

[discuss] Engineering format - number support [s]

2006-11-13 Thread Nick Radonic [c]
Open Office: I love the software and have been using it since verion 1. Here are two features I would really like to have: 1) I really miss the 'engineering format' for scientific notation. This forces the exponent to be a multiple of 3. Then the mantissa portion ranges from 1 - 999. Thi