Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 13, 2005 03:39 AM
Gnumeric's accuracy and numerical stability is dramatically higher than any other spreadsheet, on any platform, AFAIK. Part of this is that it borrows numerical code from R (and I think LAPACK). Some of this is actually being rolled into OOCalc. Gnumeric is going to be spinning off a calculation engine library that can be used by other projects, so that other F/OSS apps can benefit.
The other important point is that Gnumeric has 100% Excel function compatibility (albeit with higher numeric accuracy). I think the other sheets are in the high 90's.
The conclusion to the article didn't seem congruous with the rest of the article. It did not appear to me that Calc came out on top in "more than half the categories". It appeared that Calc and Gnumeric were comparable in the areas the author looked at. So -- do you need the whole suite, or do you just need a spreadsheet? Realistically, how many people actually embed a live spreadsheet table (and not just copy-pasted static data) in their wordprocessor, or a wordprocessor-managed text field in their spreadsheet? Nobody does that anymore, OLE is too clunky. Gnumeric is clean lightweight, and is one of the truly stellar examples of Free software.
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Re:Statistical Accuracy?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 13, 2005 03:39 AMThe other important point is that Gnumeric has 100% Excel function compatibility (albeit with higher numeric accuracy). I think the other sheets are in the high 90's.
The conclusion to the article didn't seem congruous with the rest of the article. It did not appear to me that Calc came out on top in "more than half the categories". It appeared that Calc and Gnumeric were comparable in the areas the author looked at. So -- do you need the whole suite, or do you just need a spreadsheet? Realistically, how many people actually embed a live spreadsheet table (and not just copy-pasted static data) in their wordprocessor, or a wordprocessor-managed text field in their spreadsheet? Nobody does that anymore, OLE is too clunky. Gnumeric is clean lightweight, and is one of the truly stellar examples of Free software.
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