Re: financial library.

2001-01-29 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I have not looked at those. I was not aware that there was equations to be found here. Terry Boldt wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote: I found this while looking for finanical equations on the web. I have not had much luck with the equations yet. The api should match this one .

financial library.

2001-01-28 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I found this while looking for finanical equations on the web. I have not had much luck with the equations yet. The api should match this one . http://www.idexsoft.com/index.html ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

financial library

2001-01-22 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I am going to start to put date and financial functions from gnumeric into a non-app. specific form and file. The specification of each function will be posted as I learn what it is each has to do. I will start with interst calculations. Phill.

accrint (Financial library)

2001-01-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
This is the description of the function accrint FUNCTION=ACCRINT SYNTAX=ACCRINT(issue,first_interest,settlement,rate,par,frequency,basis) DESCRIPTION ACCRINT calculates the accrued interest for a security that pays periodic interest. The rate is the annual rate of the security and par is the

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 12:05:03 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I also agree that a shared financial library would be an excellent idea. Is there any other project that might get on board, or should we just get going and if we start

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Bill Gribble
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:01:01AM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: What is to be the nature of this "financial library"? Should there not be some specs of what it is to provide as services? It is to provide financial analysis functions suitable for building reports and gra

RE: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip Shelton
As gnucash is in C, should we look at seeing if it is ok to rewrite in C or just run with the gnumeric date functions? Or add another dependency? :-\ Phill -Original Message- IMHO date functions are not such a big deal. Believe me, Excel provides excellent set of date

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Phillip J Shelton writes: Woud also having the date functions in this library be a good thing? On the face of it, that's not a bad idea. However, the gnumeric people to some extent have already had their date representation and functions decided for them (by the desire for Excel

RE: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip Shelton
I am not advocating a new dependency. Had enough trouble getting gnumeric to compile. -Original Message- From: Robert Graham Merkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Financial library

RE: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Phillip Shelton writes: As gnucash is in C, should we look at seeing if it is ok to rewrite in C or just run with the gnumeric date functions? Or add another dependency? :-\ Um, I can't speak definitively but I think we'd all be extremely wary of adding dependancies to C++ libraries,

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:04:49AM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Phillip J Shelton writes: Would also having the date functions in this library be a good thing? On the face of it, that's not a bad idea. However, the gnumeric people to some extent have already had their date

RE: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip Shelton
In making the financial functions non gnumeric specific, gnumeric will have to have a wrapper to add the spread sheet requirements to them so it should not be too hard to write wrappers for the dates either. If gnucash is benefiting from numeric with the financial functions then gnumeric can

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Woud also having the date functions in this library be a good thing? Bill Gribble wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:01:01AM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: What is to be the nature of this "financial library"? Should there not be some specs of what it is to provide a

Financial library

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I also agree that a shared financial library would be an excellent idea. Is there any other project that might get on board, or should we just get going and if we start producing something good other people can get involved as they see fit