Validate places for negative base conversions

docs/function-parity.md

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 # Function parity: worksheet functions and formulas
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-27 · **Change:** minor (ECMA.CEILING listed with USDOLLAR as not on Microsoft's list; earlier: IMSQRT reproduces the stray real part Excel gives for negative reals, and the other IM* differences from Excel are listed; earlier: the LAMBDA row lists the recursion limit and its `#NUM!`, and the error a defined name holding an error gives when called; earlier: number text with accounting parentheses coerces like Excel 365; INDEX with one index on a 2-D reference is #REF! as in Excel; earlier: SUBTOTAL and AGGREGATE cap the cells they visit, #2175) · **Target:** Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-31 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-31 · **Change:** minor (base-conversion places are validated for negative inputs and reject Boolean arguments, as observed in Excel; earlier: ECMA.CEILING listed with USDOLLAR as not on Microsoft's list; IMSQRT reproduces Excel's stray real part for negative reals) · **Target:** Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4
 
 Excel's worksheet functions, category by category, against GridCraft's function library. Part of
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md); gaps feed [gaps.md](gaps.md).
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 ## Coverage
 
+| 2026-10-31 | minor | DEC2BIN, DEC2HEX and DEC2OCT validate `places` before returning negative two's-complement output, and Boolean places return `#VALUE!`, matching Excel |
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 **Measured: 513 / 523 by name (98.1%); 504 / 523 working (96.4%).**
 
 | Category | Excel | Ours | Working | % working | Missing |