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Tuesday, 25 December 2007

Excel STILL Can’t Count Right

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I don’t get it. Why won’t Microsoft learn how NOT to release stuff like this in it?

SEATTLE—Microsoft Corp.’s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.
In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the result was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 100,000 as the answer.
Gainer said Excel makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by 850, 10.2 by 6,425 and 20.4 by 3,212.5, but the program appears to be able to handle 16,383.75 times 4.
“Further testing showed a similar phenomenon with 65,536 as well,” Gainer wrote Tuesday.

This is one more reason why I’m glad to be using Numbers. Hence the Numbers icon.

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