tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) (02/19/91)
I enjoy using spreadsheets and am willing to use the limited implementation in the Table application. Today, I discovered a bug: automatic recalcuation fails if you paste a number into place. To create the table below, I put the formula into cell [1,3] and then typed 10 into cell [1,2]. I then pasted 15 into [1,1] and notice how the result is still wrong (if the result in the mail message is correct, then apparently a recalculation occurs when this mail message is redisplayed or something). [An Andrew ToolKit view (a spreadsheet) was included here, but could not be displayed.]Just thought you folks might be interested in hearing about it.... - Anthony
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (02/19/91)
I got an even worse behavior. When your message arrived, the numbers were right, indicating that the recalculation did occur when I received the message. After verifying that the spreadsheet was working, I tried pasting in a number. It looked sort of like it had inserted a text object containing the number -- the font was different, and the calculation was, as you said, not correct. Then I tried to type in a new number by hand, and the whole application dumped core! Clearly a bug or two still lurks in the depths of the table object...