Good day All,
To put it simple I have the number -58 in A1. I type =A1+0.2 in cell A2. The result is -57.8 as expected. I then copy A2 and paste into A3-A100. All is good until it gets to where it should be say -54.4 where is says -54.39999999999... The numbers go up to 302 so I do not wish to hand type it all. It seems to work fine if the formula is not a decimal. Any ideas?
Thank you,
Ken
That is one of the classic examples used to illustrate floating point error (more than you want to know about floating point arithmetic and errors: https://www.excelforum.com/groups/ma...nd-errors.html ). The usual first solution is to incorporate a ROUND() (or similar) function. =ROUND(A1+0.2,1) for example.
Will that work for you?
Originally Posted by shg
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MrShorty,
Thank you very much. I was so frustrated with why it wasn't working, I did not even think of using the Round function.
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