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Nih

Negative Zero ???
 
Im just curious, on my spreadsheets when I have a formula that adds/subtracts
cells and the answer is zero sometimes the zero looks like this

0

sometimes it looks like this
(0)

and others look like this
-

When i select the cells and view the formatting they are all formatted the
same. WHat gives?

When i view

Harald Staff

Hi

Rounding problems. Some cells may contain something like
0.00000035
and others more like
-0.00000000000082
and some good guys are just
0

See
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/rounding.htm

HTH. best wishes Harald

"Nih" skrev i melding
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Im just curious, on my spreadsheets when I have a formula that

adds/subtracts
cells and the answer is zero sometimes the zero looks like this

0

sometimes it looks like this
(0)

and others look like this
-

When i select the cells and view the formatting they are all formatted the
same. WHat gives?

When i view





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