Not quite excel-lent: Spreadsheet program fails
mathematics test
AP
Seattle: Microsoft Corps Excel 2007 spreadsheet
program is going to have to relearn part of its
multiplication table.
In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said
that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to
multiply some pairs of numbers and the result
was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 1,00,000
as the answer.
Gainer said Excel makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by
850, 10.2 by 6,425 and 20.4 by 3,212.5; however, the
program appears to be able to handle 16,383.75
times 4.
Further testing showed a similar phenomenon with
65,536 as well, Gainer wrote.
He said Excel was actually performing the calculations
correctly, but when it comes time to show the answer
on the screen, it messes up.
Gainer said the bug is limited to six numbers from
65,534.99999999995 to 65,535, and another six from
65,535.99999999995 to 65,536.
He added that Microsoft is working hard to fix the problem.
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