Unfortunately there are no formulas in the excel that I am referencing.
What do you think this is:
=-187992-213510-828672.8-1025000+828672.8+213510+1025000+187992
It *is* a formula.
See what Microsoft has to say about it:
(Complete) Tutorial to Understand IEEE Floating-Point Errors
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/42980
How to correct rounding errors in floating-point arithmetic
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214118
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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP
"EggMan903" wrote in message
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Thank you for your response.
Unfortunately there are no formulas in the excel that I am referencing. I
just typed in those 8 numbers, added them up, and got that answer. You
could
also type in
=-187992-213510-828672.8-1025000+828672.8+213510+1025000+187992 and you
will
get the answer of 2.32831E-10. It is currently formated to general and I
know I can format it to number and it would show as 0 but why does it show
as
that value to begin with.
"T. Valko" wrote:
See this:
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/rounding.htm
Although the atricle mentions Excel 97 it's applicable to all versions of
Excel.
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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP
"EggMan903" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me why when you enter this into a cell
=-187992-213510-828672.8-1025000+828672.8+213510+1025000+187992
The value comes out 2.32831E-10 when it should clearly be 0. I know I
can
format the cell to show as 0 but why does it ever show as 2.32831E-10
when
it
is impossible to have those numbers equal anything other then 0.
Thank you