Computer arithmetic

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013, Scott Walker wrote:
>JP,
>
>Thanks for the info.  I've been fighting getting it correct (exporting data
>from fp & importing in Excel) for a while and every trick helps.

I fought this importing data into the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org
spreadsheets from my accounting application, where the spread
sheet program would do odd interpretations of data type
regardless of my quoting.

My solution was to do the import in two steps, first into a MySQL
or Postgresql database, then import from that into LibreOffice.
Unfortunately, the last time I looked, Excel didn't have the
ability to connect to real SQL databases.

Bill
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