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Banu1337
Oct 31, 2020Copper Contributor
a*b≠a*b error in excel
Hello, I'm currently working in a very large excel spreadsheet that contains many tiny numbers. As you can see in the picture (I'm using an if statement which is 1 if they are equal and 0 if not) it...
- Oct 31, 2020
Excel's uses IEEE 754 - see Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel
In short, you cannot expect results to be exactly correct, so you should round the result of formulas.
HansVogelaar
Oct 31, 2020MVP
Excel's uses IEEE 754 - see Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel
In short, you cannot expect results to be exactly correct, so you should round the result of formulas.