IMEXP
Supported, behaves as documentedCategory: Engineering · Last tested 2026-09-01
Real compatibility results for the IMEXP function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, with desktop Excel behavior from Microsoft’s official documentation (we do not run desktop Excel — Excel for the web is a different application and is executed separately). Syntax and links to that documentation are below.
Support matrix
| Engine | Documented | Live-tested | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excel (desktop) | Yes | No — documented only | n/a |
| Excel for the web | — | Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| Google Sheets | Yes | Yes (Drive import, 2026-08-31) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| LibreOffice Calc | Yes | Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-08-31) | Supported, behaves as documented |
LibreOffice version history
We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when IMEXP’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.
| LibreOffice version | Verdict | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 24.2.0.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
| 24.8.7.2 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
| 25.2.0.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
| 25.8.7.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
Executed test cases
Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)
These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =IMEXP("1+i") | Microsoft's documented worked example: the exponential of 1+i | 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884i | 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884iProvenanceMicrosoft publishes '=IMEXP("1+i")' with the result 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884i. Derived independently with mpmath at 40 digits from Euler's formula, which is what the page's image renders: e^(x+yi) = e^x(cos y + i sin y), so the real part is e*cos(1) = 1.4686939399158851571 and the imaginary part is e*sin(1) = 2.2873552871788423912. Rendered through this corpus's independent implementation of Excel's complex-string format, byte-identical to Microsoft's published string. EXCEL'S COMPLEX-STRING FORMAT, which this corpus derives rather than assumes: a result is rendered as the real part, then the sign, then the imaginary coefficient followed by the suffix, with each part printed to at most 15 significant digits and trailing zeros stripped; a zero real part is omitted entirely, a zero imaginary part reduces the result to a bare real number, and an imaginary coefficient of exactly 1 or -1 prints as "i" / "-i" with no digit. That rule was not taken on faith -- it was written as a formatter in Python and validated against SEVEN independently published Microsoft strings in this batch alone (IMCOS, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMEXP and IMLN), which it reproduces byte for byte, before being used to predict any value this corpus asserts. String results are compared exactly, so a formatting-only difference (a trailing zero, "1i" for "i", a different digit count) fails the case and is recorded as its own divergence class, separate from a wrong numeric value. |
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| =IMEXP("0") | e^0 = 1, printed as a bare real number | 1 | 1ProvenanceExact by definition, and a formatting case as much as a value case: the imaginary part is zero, so the documented format yields "1" rather than "1+0i". EXCEL'S COMPLEX-STRING FORMAT, which this corpus derives rather than assumes: a result is rendered as the real part, then the sign, then the imaginary coefficient followed by the suffix, with each part printed to at most 15 significant digits and trailing zeros stripped; a zero real part is omitted entirely, a zero imaginary part reduces the result to a bare real number, and an imaginary coefficient of exactly 1 or -1 prints as "i" / "-i" with no digit. That rule was not taken on faith -- it was written as a formatter in Python and validated against SEVEN independently published Microsoft strings in this batch alone (IMCOS, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMEXP and IMLN), which it reproduces byte for byte, before being used to predict any value this corpus asserts. String results are compared exactly, so a formatting-only difference (a trailing zero, "1i" for "i", a different digit count) fails the case and is recorded as its own divergence class, separate from a wrong numeric value. |
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Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-31 via Drive import)
Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =IMEXP("1+i") | Microsoft's documented worked example: the exponential of 1+i | 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884i | 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884iProvenanceMicrosoft publishes '=IMEXP("1+i")' with the result 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884i. Derived independently with mpmath at 40 digits from Euler's formula, which is what the page's image renders: e^(x+yi) = e^x(cos y + i sin y), so the real part is e*cos(1) = 1.4686939399158851571 and the imaginary part is e*sin(1) = 2.2873552871788423912. Rendered through this corpus's independent implementation of Excel's complex-string format, byte-identical to Microsoft's published string. EXCEL'S COMPLEX-STRING FORMAT, which this corpus derives rather than assumes: a result is rendered as the real part, then the sign, then the imaginary coefficient followed by the suffix, with each part printed to at most 15 significant digits and trailing zeros stripped; a zero real part is omitted entirely, a zero imaginary part reduces the result to a bare real number, and an imaginary coefficient of exactly 1 or -1 prints as "i" / "-i" with no digit. That rule was not taken on faith -- it was written as a formatter in Python and validated against SEVEN independently published Microsoft strings in this batch alone (IMCOS, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMEXP and IMLN), which it reproduces byte for byte, before being used to predict any value this corpus asserts. String results are compared exactly, so a formatting-only difference (a trailing zero, "1i" for "i", a different digit count) fails the case and is recorded as its own divergence class, separate from a wrong numeric value. |
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| =IMEXP("0") | e^0 = 1, printed as a bare real number | 1 | 1ProvenanceExact by definition, and a formatting case as much as a value case: the imaginary part is zero, so the documented format yields "1" rather than "1+0i". EXCEL'S COMPLEX-STRING FORMAT, which this corpus derives rather than assumes: a result is rendered as the real part, then the sign, then the imaginary coefficient followed by the suffix, with each part printed to at most 15 significant digits and trailing zeros stripped; a zero real part is omitted entirely, a zero imaginary part reduces the result to a bare real number, and an imaginary coefficient of exactly 1 or -1 prints as "i" / "-i" with no digit. That rule was not taken on faith -- it was written as a formatter in Python and validated against SEVEN independently published Microsoft strings in this batch alone (IMCOS, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMEXP and IMLN), which it reproduces byte for byte, before being used to predict any value this corpus asserts. String results are compared exactly, so a formatting-only difference (a trailing zero, "1i" for "i", a different digit count) fails the case and is recorded as its own divergence class, separate from a wrong numeric value. |
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LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-08-31)
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =IMEXP("1+i") | Microsoft's documented worked example: the exponential of 1+i | 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884i | 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884iProvenanceMicrosoft publishes '=IMEXP("1+i")' with the result 1.46869393991589+2.28735528717884i. Derived independently with mpmath at 40 digits from Euler's formula, which is what the page's image renders: e^(x+yi) = e^x(cos y + i sin y), so the real part is e*cos(1) = 1.4686939399158851571 and the imaginary part is e*sin(1) = 2.2873552871788423912. Rendered through this corpus's independent implementation of Excel's complex-string format, byte-identical to Microsoft's published string. EXCEL'S COMPLEX-STRING FORMAT, which this corpus derives rather than assumes: a result is rendered as the real part, then the sign, then the imaginary coefficient followed by the suffix, with each part printed to at most 15 significant digits and trailing zeros stripped; a zero real part is omitted entirely, a zero imaginary part reduces the result to a bare real number, and an imaginary coefficient of exactly 1 or -1 prints as "i" / "-i" with no digit. That rule was not taken on faith -- it was written as a formatter in Python and validated against SEVEN independently published Microsoft strings in this batch alone (IMCOS, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMEXP and IMLN), which it reproduces byte for byte, before being used to predict any value this corpus asserts. String results are compared exactly, so a formatting-only difference (a trailing zero, "1i" for "i", a different digit count) fails the case and is recorded as its own divergence class, separate from a wrong numeric value. |
Matched |
| =IMEXP("0") | e^0 = 1, printed as a bare real number | 1 | 1ProvenanceExact by definition, and a formatting case as much as a value case: the imaginary part is zero, so the documented format yields "1" rather than "1+0i". EXCEL'S COMPLEX-STRING FORMAT, which this corpus derives rather than assumes: a result is rendered as the real part, then the sign, then the imaginary coefficient followed by the suffix, with each part printed to at most 15 significant digits and trailing zeros stripped; a zero real part is omitted entirely, a zero imaginary part reduces the result to a bare real number, and an imaginary coefficient of exactly 1 or -1 prints as "i" / "-i" with no digit. That rule was not taken on faith -- it was written as a formatter in Python and validated against SEVEN independently published Microsoft strings in this batch alone (IMCOS, IMCOSH, IMCOT, IMCSC, IMCSCH, IMEXP and IMLN), which it reproduces byte for byte, before being used to predict any value this corpus asserts. String results are compared exactly, so a formatting-only difference (a trailing zero, "1i" for "i", a different digit count) fails the case and is recorded as its own divergence class, separate from a wrong numeric value. |
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Docs & syntax
- Excel (desktop): official documentation
- Google Sheets: official documentation
- LibreOffice Calc: official documentation