Spreadsheets and precision?
Paul Lussier
p.lussier at comcast.net
Sun Sep 9 13:09:41 EDT 2007
lan4pal at newcomb.mv.com (Lee A. Newcomb) writes:
> This is where reading the doc. helps (marks added) :)
>
> QUOTIENT
> This function is only available if Analysis AddIn is installed.
For some reason, I don't see this statement anywhere, but since I have
the function available, I must have that AddIn.
> Returns the _integer_ result of a division operation.
Oh. I do see that now that I look. This strikes me as completely
counter-intuitive. So, how to people do actual division in
spreadsheets? Does Excel suffer from this as well?
/me goes back to emacs, which operates with expected/desired/useful behavior :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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