Spreadsheets and precision?

[Paul Lussier]

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