Excel follows the industry standard IEEE 754 protocol for storing and calculating floating-point numbers in computers, a standard that was officially adopted in 1985 and was updated in 2008. Support ...

I'm calculating purchase costs. In on cell, I have a currency (cost per item) value, in the next cell, I have a quantity value of two. The two values are 116.09 and 2. In the third cell is the ...

Microsoft plugged more than a few vulnerabilities in Excel last week, but the trade off may be calculation errors.Microsoft's Bill Sisk said in a post late Friday following the software giant's ...

While they did admit the Excel coding error, their statement said that they “object to in the strongest terms” the accusation of selective data omission.

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Excel now recognizes the selected cells as numbers and can perform calculations with them without errors. Click an empty cell on the spreadsheet, and push the "=" key to begin entering a calculation.

News Excel Patch Causing Calculation Errors By Becky Nagel March 17, 2008 Microsoft admitted on Friday that a patch it released last week is causing Excel 2003 to make some incorrect calculations.

How to Use Excel to Calculate a Bond's Yield to Call. Bonds are investment vehicles that make regular coupon payments until maturity, at which time the bond's face value is paid.

Microsoft admitted on Friday that a patch it released last week is causing Excel 2003 to make some incorrect calculations.

Excel Patch Causing Calculation Errors Microsoft admitted on Friday that a patch it released last week is causing Excel 2003 to make some incorrect calculations.

As explained in my March 2014 Technology Q&A item “ Bugged by Excel’s Calculation Errors,” Excel is designed to handle only 15 total digits for a given number (including digits after the decimal place ...