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Markus Mathis
Copper Contributor
Mar 05, 2018

Time calculation Error

Hi

 

Excel calculates the difference of 2 times wrong. It returns for 2:00h minus 2:00h -6,93889E17 (in G13).

The result in G19 is correct.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

1 Reply

  • JKPieterse's avatar
    JKPieterse
    Silver Contributor
    This is a well known behavior of Excel which is due to the fact that many numbers cannot be converted to binairy numbers exactly. Hence some rounding errors may occur when subtracting (almost) identical numbers.

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