azbasketcat
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I have an interesting issue I just found in one of my Excel workbooks, I was hoping one of the brilliant minds on Mr. Excel could shed some light on this.
I have three values in A1, A2 and A3. All three of these values were derived from formulas in another worksheet, but I pasted the values in a blank workbook and was able to replicate the issue. Essentially, A2 was derived from subtracting A3 from A1. I am trying to understand why Result 1 does not equal zero, even though it should as proven by Results 2 and 3.
Ultimately, I can deal with this by using Round(), but was curious if anyone has any thoughts. Thanks - Randy
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I have three values in A1, A2 and A3. All three of these values were derived from formulas in another worksheet, but I pasted the values in a blank workbook and was able to replicate the issue. Essentially, A2 was derived from subtracting A3 from A1. I am trying to understand why Result 1 does not equal zero, even though it should as proven by Results 2 and 3.
Ultimately, I can deal with this by using Round(), but was curious if anyone has any thoughts. Thanks - Randy
A1: | 25201.0862309080000 | ||
A2: | 23334.4417737846000 | ||
A3: | 1866.6444571233500 | ||
Is Zero | |||
Result 1: | A1-A2-A3 = 0.0000000000018 | FALSE | |
Result 2: | A1-A3-A2 = 0.0000000000000 | TRUE | |
Result 3: | A1-SUM(A2:A3) = 0.0000000000000 | TRUE |
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