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I am trying to do some basic calculations (mostly finding the median of a range of values) using gnumeric. Unfortunately, this is giving me a hard time. Consider the following data:

0.04 0.04 0 0 0.08
0.07 0.03 0 0.01 0.11
0.05 0.04 0 0 0.09
0.06 0.03 0 0.01 0.1
0.05 0.04 0 0 0.09
0.07 0.03 0 0.01 0.11
0.06 0.03 0 0 0.09
0.07 0.03 0 0.01 0.11
0.05 0.04 0 0 0.09
0.06 0.03 0 0 0.09

When I try to calculate the median using a range by issuing =median(A1:A10), gnumerics result is #NUMBER, which I don't understand. The result is the same when using the syntax =median(A1;A2;A3;..). If I try to compute the sum by using =sum(A1:A10), the result is 0. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to format the columns in a specific way to make this work?

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The answer to this mistery is simple: gnumeric here uses , as the decimal separator, not .. In gnumeric, the decimal separator is set by the locale. If you want to use another decimal separator, simply use gnumeric with another locale, e.g. use LC_NUMERIC=C.

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