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(In reply to comment #3)
> Hello Christopher,
>
> sure it's annoying but if you try with for example Excel the limit is just a
> bit higher. Try with 1126515533121300 and 1. I'm really surprised that we have
> this problem a bit earlier but I don't think it is something we should worry
> about.
Markus, thank you for your discussion on this issue. As I have been focused on upstreaming Ubuntu bugs, my standard for downstream triaging has been "What occurs in Excel in the same circumstance?" Viewing it this way, ones expectation for this issue is that LO, at least, matches the precision of Excel. Anything more precise than Excel, at best, is an ENHANCEMENT request.
> There is no real possibility to resolve the general problem. So in my opinion
> this is annoying but we should not try to fix it.
>
> The only solution would be to use exact numbers instad of floating point
> numbers, but this will have even bigger performance impact.
Regarding exact numbers v. floating point this is outside my area of expertise so I defer to your and the communities position as to if, how, and when to move forward on that.