Re: COUPNCD COUPPCD Aarrrghhhh!

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Neil Booth wrote:

> We can remove the XL compatibility from COUPNCD and COUPPCD, since
> 2000 appears to do that perfectly.  I'm assuming, of course, that XP
> doesn't re-break them 8-)


And there is of course no reason why we should assume that. THis is MS 
after all.


> But we probably to keep the function coup_cd_xl, since other functions
> like COUPDAYS are still broken in 2000 (and therefore maybe XP).  I
> have figured out what the XL algorithm for COUPDAYS with Act/Act is (I
> can get a perfect score on the regression sheet), and it's easier to
> implement with this function still around.


oh bother...


> There's little point continuing until we have the latest regression
> files.


agreed


Andreas

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