[PLUG] Viewing OpenOffice.Org Source Code

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Tue Jun 6 17:21:46 UTC 2006


Is there anyplace to view OpenOffice.Org source code online,
without downloading the source? 

In particular, I want to look at the source for the GammaLN
function in the spreadsheet "calc" or "sc";  for X < 1E-6 or
so, it is unnecessarily inaccurate, and there are negative
values of X where GammaLN should be computable but isn't. 
That should be a quick hack to fix, since there are good ways
to manipulate this function mathematically to ease computation
( what is GammaLN? it computes the natural logarithm of the
gamma function.  What is the gamma function?  See:
  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GammaFunction.html )

Of course, there is an additional problem, if the calculation
returns the mathematically correct value of GammaLN, but Excel
does not, then some might complain about the difference.  Mostly,
though, Excel just burps up an error when given small or
out-of-range arguments, and failing less often is usually better.

Keith

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