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Bug 650928 - Formatting inconsistency for near-zero negatives
Formatting inconsistency for near-zero negatives
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-24 01:43 UTC by Andreas J. Guelzow
Modified: 2011-05-24 13:21 UTC
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Description Andreas J. Guelzow 2011-05-24 01:43:00 UTC 
This is from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627675

new gnumeric
enter in A1 to A3: -0.01
format A1 as number with 0 decimals
format A2 as number with 1 decimals
format A3 as number with 2 decimals

A3 shows as expected -0.01

A1 shows -0
A2 shows 0.0

While a case could be made for either showing or not showing the negative sign, it really should be consistent.

Note that the corresponding effect happens for percentages and the debian bug report is really about percentages.
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2011-05-24 12:08:20 UTC 
"-0" is unexpected.
Comment 2 Morten Welinder 2011-05-24 13:21:40 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.

Fix is in goffice.