Re: ver 1.9.4 use more decimal digits

[John Machin <sjmachin lexicon net>]

On 2/03/2009 1:55 PM, Morten Welinder wrote:

> We used to use 15 (I think), so we actually used to drop the occasional
> bit.  Not Good[tm].  Somewhat embarrassing, in fact.

At least Gnumeric has recanted and vowed to tread the paths of 
righteousness in future :-) unlike one of its competitors -- for the 
gory details, see the rather forcefully expressed views of Prof. Kahan 
in http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf

In case gentle readers of gnumeric-list are afraid that it will be full 
of arcane theorems, let me tempt them by quoting one paragraph:

"""
How can a user of Excel predict which functions act upon displayed 
instead of actual values? Which expressions get rounded cosmetically 
before being displayed? The user’s program cannot be debugged without an 
awareness of these questions, and an aware user ends up debugging 
Microsoft’s pious fraud instead of just a malfunctioning Excel spreadsheet.
“Against stupidity even the gods struggle in vain.” F. von Schiller 
(1759-1805)

"""

Cheers,
John