Christopher: To see the results asymptotically approaching 0.14, increase the number of periods, not the annuity payment (in other words, keep the annuity payment at 35) -- i.e., =RATE([change this number],35,-250,0).
As I wrote above, returning an error is a *lot* better than returning the wrong number, because the RATE() function is used only for financial calculations. When there's money on the line, a non-working spreadsheet that reports an error is better than a working one that gives the user a bad answer. I would NOT have reported this bug if LibreOffice had returned an error. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1150956 Title: LibreOffice Calc's RATE function sometimes produces different results as some versions of MS Office Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Type "=RATE(50,35,-250,0)" on any cell, and press Enter. The result should be 0.1398, but LibreOffice shows -1.9474! I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 350m1(Build:2), on Ubuntu 12.04, 64-bit version, with up-to-date packages. Reproducible in Raring. WORKAROUND: Use Gnumeric. apt-cache policy gnumeric gnumeric: Installed: 1.12.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.12.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.12.1-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1150956/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
