Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes: > Hi all, > > is it at all possible to set different precision for display and > calculations in Org's spreadsheet? I mean, things like $1+$2;%.2f (as > in the manual) mean (IIUC) that (1) Org should show 2 decimal figures > and (2) further calculations which use this value also use this > approximation. Am I right? If yes, is there a way to change this > behavior? (I suspect not, but I wanted to make sure.) >
I believe that internally, calculations are done in 12-decimal place precision: the %.2f is for display only. See org-calc-default-modes for details. -- Nick