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What Excel 2007 doesn’t know can hurt you

6 5 5 3 5? Basic math escapes Excel. Number of the beast.

 

It’s the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world’s leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values, a Microsoft developer confirmed on his team’s blog yesterday. BetaNews confirmed the bug’s existence, which leads to some values in floating-point multiplication to be “rounded” to incorrect values.

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