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Craig Sink
 
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Default Conditional formatting producing inconsistant results?

Hello,
I am attempting to format a cell and the results are inconsistant. The
formula looks like this:

=IF(MOD(C3,0.0005)0,TRUE(),FALSE())

The results I get are inconstant. If the value of C3 is .2810 it treats it
as a true statement, which is not the case. However, most other values are
correctly analyzed. I have discovered the reason which is an error that
shows up in about the 17th decimal place. I corrected the problem by
changeing the formula to look like this:

=IF(ROUND(MOD(C3,0.0005),4)0,TRUE(),FALSE())

Why the error, and is there a way to avoid this? The odd thing is that some
of the values which were analyzed correctly also had error, but it was in
the 18th decimal place.

Anyway, I've resolved the problem for now, just wondering where else the
error is going to cause problems.

Craig S.
FDI, Inc.


 
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