Ray, all: To reinforce your information, I have verified Ray's compatibility issue with OpenOffice under both Windows XP and Linux. Brent DeWitt > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ray Anderson > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:08 AM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] Recursive calculations in spreadsheets > > > In a recent (and possibly ongoing ) thread, I and at least a couple > others mentioned the use of Excel spreadsheets to recursively calculate > field solutions, DC drops and other such parameters. > > I just wanted to mention something related to these recursive > calculations that might not be obvious until you try to implement them > in a spreadsheet. Specifically, A lot of spreadsheets that run just fine > in Excel may fail miserably when implemented in Sun's StarOffice (and > presumably OpenOffice) spreadsheets. In most instances StarOffice > functions very nearly exactly like Excel. The gotcha' is that circularly > referenced recursive calculations fail after just a few iterations in > StarOffice as they have implemented a very shallow stack structure as > opposed to Excel which allows recursion depth limited only by the memory > size available. > > -Ray > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > List FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu