Spreadsheets and precision?

[Bill Ricker]

> 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?

Yes.

Every spreadsheet since VisiCalc has done floating point division and
other basic numeric formuli in formulaic form as

  =3329.10/10

and used NamedFunctions() only for things without conventional (to
business folks) infix notation.

VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 allowed
   +3329.10/10
and might figure out that
     3329.10/10
was NOT a date and work, but OO.o.C and "Excel" insist on = prefix for
any non-constant formula

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Bill
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