diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 33f10b33d..8f2b71fd5 100755
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-09-24  Carsten Dominik  <dominik@science.uva.nl>
 
+	* org-table.el (org-table-sum): Do not format the result with %g,
+	it does rounding when there are too many digits.
+
 	* org.el (org-map-entries): Protect the keyword-selecting variables.
 
 2008-09-23  Bastien Guerry  <bzg@altern.org>
diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el
index 247bb6ec5..e5cfaecfb 100644
--- a/lisp/org-table.el
+++ b/lisp/org-table.el
@@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ If NLAST is a number, only the NLAST fields will actually be summed."
 					items1)))
 	     (res (apply '+ numbers))
 	     (sres (if (= org-timecnt 0)
-		       (format "%g" res)
+		       (number-to-string res)
 		     (setq diff (* 3600 res)
 			   h (floor (/ diff 3600)) diff (mod diff 3600)
 			   m (floor (/ diff 60)) diff (mod diff 60)