This is simply round-off error. The result of the calculation is not exact
and corresponds to the nearest value that can be represented by the IEEE
number format that Excel uses.
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Gary's Student


"mklalli" wrote:


61.48-61.42=0.0599999999999952

Why?

This happens frequently in various formulas.

66555.54-66081.35=474.189999999988

What is going on? Surely I'm not the only one that has noticed this?


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mklalli


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