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Default [newbie] rounding anomaly

I've formatted a cell as a percentage column with a precision of 3 d.p.
However, when I work out the average, the answer is inaccurately.

So,

cell D80 =POWER((1 + D76/$D$82),$D$82)-1 and is formatted as a percentage
with 3 d.p.

Value = 12.683

cell D81 =(D79+(D78*D75))*D80

The answer comes up as 5073, whilst when working out cell D81 manually:

35000 + (0.10 * 50000)) * .012683 = 5073.20

Is this a bug?


MS Excel 2007

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