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openoffice.org package

  1. Bug #264345
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 264345

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Martin Kretzschmar (martink) wrote : Re: [Bug 264345] Re: =(-8)^(1/3)

I'm not an expert on computer arithmetic, but I would guess that this
can only be solved using symbolic algebra, or by storing rational
numbers as rationals, or by using complex arithmetic. Openoffice.org
most likely uses plain floating point arithmetic, so cannot solve
this.