Bug 101166

Summary: function RATE: argument PayType is not treated as boolean
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Winfried Donkers <winfrieddonkers>
Component: CalcAssignee: Winfried Donkers <winfrieddonkers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: raal
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: target:5.3.0
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:

Description Winfried Donkers 2016-07-28 07:21:28 UTC
=RATE(3;-10;900;0;1;0) and RATE(3;-10;900;0;2;0) do not return the same result, whereas Excel does (-89%).
Comment 1 Eike Rathke 2016-07-29 20:10:05 UTC
ODFF correction submitted to the ODF-TC
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/201607/msg00010.html
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2016-07-29 20:10:41 UTC
Winfried Donkers committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1ca11b55aecb18f9dcca1e9678910dc2e7593623

tdf#101166 treat argument PayType for Calc function RATE as boolean.

It will be available in 5.3.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.