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    excel automatically rounding to nearest 10

    If I multiply 213458046676875 * 29, I get 6190283353629370 instead of 6190283353629375.

    How do I prevent excel from doing this. I tried formatting its number format too.

    Thank you.

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    Re: excel automatically rounding to nearest 10

    Hi,

    Excel therefore stores only 15 significant digits in a number, and changes digits after the fifteenth place to zeroes.

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    Re: excel automatically rounding to nearest 10

    as far as i know this is a function of excel
    only works to 15 digits of precision
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    Re: excel automatically rounding to nearest 10

    Thanks for this information.

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    Re: excel automatically rounding to nearest 10

    Excel's maximum precision is 15 digits

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/269370

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