This is caused by the floating point arithmetic engine within Excel, it is
limited in its precision (as are most other applications).

The solution is to take one from the other and check that it is not greater
than a small number, such as

=ABS(A26-A27)<0.000001

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Bob Phillips

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when comparing two different times why is 00:30 minutes giving me a
number like .02083333333333333333 and 0:30 minutes from a vlookup table
is giving me a number like .0208333333284827

whats up with that that is why my conditional formatting is a problem

ed


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