Re: Functions duration and mduration

[Andreas Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 17:06 +0200, so09 gmx de wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> the function DURATION gives the Macauley Duration (also called simply 
> duration) of a bond, while MDURATION gives the Modified Duration.
>
> Gnumeric 1.10.17 explains this incorrectly, probably because Excel had 
> it wrong.
>
> Do you need a more detailed explanation?

Please file a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org indicating exactly what
you think is wrong and how it should be described correctly.

Comparing our description with that of ODF 1.2 I suspect that we should
simply change "Macauley duration" to "modified Macauley duration".

Andreas 
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Andreas Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>