Talk:Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel
Add topicLatest comment: 8 years ago by Stelio in topic not sure whether it it is an EXCEL-Problem
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[edit]Is seems not all of this article's content is specific to Excel, and thus is already covered elsewhere. Couldn't this article be shortened significantly? --Mortense (talk) 11:47, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- This suggestion could be made more useful it were made specific just what is found elsewhere with links to where the duplicate content is located. Brews ohare (talk) 17:48, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
First two references of footnote #9 are currently dead links. 63.156.219.125 (talk) 19:17, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
not sure whether it it is an EXCEL-Problem
[edit]A kitchen scales (soehnle) indicates at the beginning "18.888" for a seccond and the shows a a regular "0" to start regular measuring. Remember that the similar problem can happen when starting a specific EXCEL computation using extensive precision.
Is that an issue related to this topic -any hint?
--Gaschroeder (talk) 19:12, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
- @Gaschroeder:, the behaviour you mention is completely unrelated to Excel's precision. When the kitchen scales switch on, all segments of the seven-segment display digits are lit up briefly, before the display settles down to its zero starting position. This is a deliberate feature that provides a visual test that all segments are working. This mitigates errors due to failed segments (for example if the bottom-left segment of a digit fails, a 6 will appear as a 5). -Stelio (talk) 15:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC)