why are my worksheet autosum totals one cent off?

A

allan

On more than one occasion, I have used autosum to add up a column of numbers
and the sum is one cent off. I double check the answer with a calculator so
I'm sure of the problem. Is there anyone who has encountered this problem?
 
J

Jim Cone

More details than you probably wanted...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/78113/en-us
Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel
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Also, don't round numbers until you get to the grand total.
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Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)



"allan" <[email protected]>
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On more than one occasion, I have used autosum to add up a column of numbers
and the sum is one cent off. I double check the answer with a calculator so
I'm sure of the problem. Is there anyone who has encountered this problem?
 

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