upto 1, 2, 3 digits

[lezawang]

Hi
I went to Format Cell -> Fraction and I saw the first 3 options.

1) Upto 1 digit
2) Upto 2 digits
3) upto 3 digits

I entered in a cell this value 1.1 and formatted 3 cells as above, so i got this

	upto 1 digit	upto 2 digits	upto 3 digita
1.1	1 1/9	1 1/10	1 1/10

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What does upto 1,2,3 digits means and why in this case upto 2 and 3 are the same. Thank you very much.

 

[Kenneth Hobson]

upto

is the clue if the examples are not enough.

1.211 1 1/5 1 4/19 1 23/109

 

[kweaver]

Excel simplifies (hate the word "reduce") the fractions. So, it won't show you 1 2/20 because simplified it's 1 1/10.

Microsoft's reference, if it's any help is:

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...ractions-0121ecac-1773-4f2d-8cd3-7db51fd83b77

 

[lezawang]

Thanks all for your help.

1.211 1 1/5 1 4/19 1 23/109

So 1 1/5 (5 is 1 digit that is called upto 1)

1 4/19 (19 is 2 digit that is why it is called upto 2)

1 23/109 (109 is 3 that is why it is called upto 3)

Am I right?

 

[Kenneth Hobson]

Yes, upto means demoninator upto that many digits.

Here, we get all one digit though the last two are 2 and 3 digits, upto.
1.2 1 1/5 1 1/5 1 1/5

If it were to show 2 and 3 digits in the case above, it would have to also increase the value of the numerator and those would not be common fractions.