Re: Strange Formatting

[Andrew T Mathes <amathes u washington edu>]

I've been having the same problem for about a week or two now.  Gnumeric
version 1.0.8 ... also running gentoo.  (gentoo issue?).  It seems that if
using general, number, currency, or accounting formatting that 0.?0 format
occurs, but if you use scientific or "text" formatting, everything is
fine.
Just wanted to report it's duplication, I don't know enough to track it
down any farther than this.
Andrew

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:19:12PM +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use gnumeric (version 1.0.12, inside gentoo linux) and
> > I get some strange number formatting errors.
> >
> > Whenever I try to put specific numbers in cell using the standard
> > number format with 2 decimal places; I get a letter put in it's
> > place. e.g.  4 always comes out as 0.X0.
> >
> > 0 to 3, 32 to (I think) 511, 16384 to more than 2^32 work I think.
> > The others always generate 0.?0 where '?' is a random character
> > (i.e. not always alpha numeric).

> Bizarre.  I have not seen or heard of anything like that before.
> Can you send me a sample file that exhibits the problem with a
> detailed example of exactly (very exactly) what you do to get this
> result, along with details of what you see and what you expect to
> see.
>
> Ideally this would go into bugzilla.gnome.org for easy tracking.
>
> Thanks
>    Jody