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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robinson Tryon, thank you for your comment.

I'm fine with this remaining open as a lowest priority enhancement
request, given the scope of this report is narrow and well defined, in
that it's not increase precision on everything, but an Excel calcuation
parity request in a well defined case as noted in the Description, and
downstream.

As well, this not being a high priority issue is both expected and understandable. However, being able to seemlessly exchange documents between colleagues using Excel, without the hassle of having to WORKAROUND compatibility issues would be fair here. Especially in light of how compatibility is a focus of the project -> http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/ :
"LibreOffice is compatible with many document formats such as Microsoft® Word, Excel..."

Unfortunately, NEW is not an available Status, and UNCONFIRMED doesn't
apply as it's more than confirmed up and downstream, so it's REOPENED.

Despite this, I've placed myself as the QA contact if you would have
further questions on the scope of this report.

Thank you for your understanding.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/340051

Title:
  [upstream] Calc precision error subtracting 3 integers

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  1)  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:	11.04

  2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc
  libreoffice-calc:
    Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
    Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

  3) What is expected to happen in LibreOffice Calc via the Terminal:

  cd ~/Desktop && wget
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/340051/+attachment/486207/+files/openoffice.summation.bug.ods
  && localc openoffice.summation.bug.ods

  is that cell A1=806515533049393 cell B1=1 cell C1=806515533049393 and
  cell D1=A1-B1-C1=-1.

  4) What happens instead is cell D1 is 0.

  WORKAROUND: Use Gnumeric.

  apt-cache policy gnumeric
  gnumeric:
    Installed: 1.10.13-1ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1.10.13-1ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1.10.13-1ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  WORKAROUND: If the contents of B1 and C1 are swapped, the correct
  answer of -1 is given.

  Original Reporter comments: OpenOffice 2.4.1 on x86 Ubuntu 8.10
  Intrepid Ibex. This error did not occur when performing the same
  numerical calculation in the bash shell: echo $((a-1-a)).

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: openoffice.org
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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