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Niek Otten Niek Otten is offline
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Default Rounding Problem

<I checked all cells, and none have more than 2 decimals

They probably have, you just can't see them

Look he

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/pennyoff.html

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"kleivakat" wrote in message ...
|I have several formulas that are contributing to a final price for an item.
| The result of last formula is that 2 x $610.60 = $1,220.21, and I can't find
| the error. There is one related cell that uses the ROUND function, and I
| wonder if that is contributing to the error. The contents of the related
| cells a
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| =ROUND(IF(M880,K88*(1+M88),0),2)+N88
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| where M88 is a percentage mark-up (11.0% formatted as a percentage with 2
| decimal points.)
| where K88 is =SUM(I88:J88) - I88 and J88 are both numeric values
| where N88 is a numeric value
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| I have a feeling that somewhere in one of my formulas there is a number
| that's reading many more decimals that two, therefore 610.60 x 2 is larger
| than 1,220.20. I checked all cells, and none have more than 2 decimals.
|
| Any ideas where I'm getting the extra penny from?
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