Gnumeric 0.17 is out | Linux Today

Gnumeric 0.17 is out

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 13, 1999

Miguel de Icaza
writes:

Hello guys,

New version of Gnumeric “Engineering Manatee” 0.17 is out.
Please let us know if you have any problems with the Engineering
Manatee release.

* Availability:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

* Changes and new features:

* Financial functions (effect, sln, syd) from Vladimir
Vuksan.

* Engineering functions (power, gammaln, poisson, expondist,
sign, trunc) from Michael Meeks.

* Statistical functions (stdev, stdevp, var, varp, gcd,
geomean,) from Michael Meeks.

* Fixes to the clipboard code (should paste formulas to other
applications correctly and fix the inter-worbook pastes).

* External function loading works for Excel files.

* Cleaned up the Excel code (Michael)

* Should compile in AIX again.

* Documentation

* As usual, all of the Gnumeric functions are documented.

Enjoy,
Miguel.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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