Excel is not able to make computations using the MOD function of numbers as
large as 10 billion. So for example if we type in
=MOD(10000000000,10)
We get a result of
#NUM!
This is something I can do in my head, or my calculator, it is disappointing
that excel can't handle it. This is a suggestion and not a bug, because the
MOD function works fine, its just that someone didnt have the foresight to
allow it to work for large values. I am guessing that the solution to this
will only require changing a single line of code.

"Gold Fish" <Gold wrote...
Excel is not able to make computations using the MOD function of numbers as
large as 10 billion. So for example if we type in
=MOD(10000000000,10)
We get a result of
#NUM!
....

Old news.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;119083

This KB article implies by omission that this has been fixed in Excel 2003,
but if so there ain't gonna be a fix for older versions.

"Harlan Grove" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
"Gold Fish" <Gold wrote...
Excel is not able to make computations using the MOD function of
numbers as
large as 10 billion. So for example if we type in
=MOD(10000000000,10)
We get a result of
#NUM!
...

Old news.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;119083

This KB article implies by omission that this has been fixed in Excel
2003,
but if so there ain't gonna be a fix for older versions.

Hi Harlan
I guess they just forgot to update the KB article :-)
So Excel 2003 still has this bug (at least my German version). Not sure
what the max. allowed number in previous versions is so I couldn't test
if they at least extended the value range (but I doubt it)

Frank

"Frank Kabel" wrote...
....
I guess they just forgot to update the KB article :-)
So Excel 2003 still has this bug (at least my German version). Not sure
what the max. allowed number in previous versions is so I couldn't test
if they at least extended the value range (but I doubt it)

This proves that at least on Windows machines which by now all have
IEEE-compliant hardware FPUs that Excel's developers are too pig-headed to
use the hardware opcodes. See

http://google.com/groups?selm=eoRsb....wsrange r.com

I guess they just forgot to update the KB article :-)
So Excel 2003 still has this bug (at least my German version). Not
sure
what the max. allowed number in previous versions is so I couldn't
test
if they at least extended the value range (but I doubt it)

This proves that at least on Windows machines which by now all have
IEEE-compliant hardware FPUs that Excel's developers are too
pig-headed to
use the hardware opcodes. See


http://google.com/groups?selm=eoRsb....newsrange r.c
om

Hi Harlan
thanks for the link. And just to confirm. The 2^27 quotient limit is
still true for Excel 2003. So no change at all is respect to previous
Excel versions.

Frank

Hi
send an email to


but fortunately (as also mentioned in the help) there's a workaround
using INT

--
Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

"Gold Fish" <Gold schrieb im
Newsbeitrag ...
Excel is not able to make computations using the MOD function of
numbers as
large as 10 billion. So for example if we type in
=MOD(10000000000,10)
We get a result of
#NUM!
This is something I can do in my head, or my calculator, it is
disappointing
that excel can't handle it. This is a suggestion and not a bug,
because the
MOD function works fine, its just that someone didnt have the
foresight to
allow it to work for large values. I am guessing that the solution
to this
will only require changing a single line of code.