I think that explains it. Thanks. On Jul 21, 11:08 am, Stuart Redmann <dertop...@web.de> wrote: > On 20 Jul., larry wrote: > > > > > I have a macro where I copy data into an array from one sheet and then > > > > post it in another sheet and there is something odd. .8 becomes , > > > > 799999, .15 becomes .15000001. The other way around this would be > > > > rounding. It only changes the values in the first column. Any ideas on > > > > what is going on? > > On 21 Jul., larry wrote: > > > Since the data was hard entered, typed directly, there shouldn't be > > any extra digits hanging around. > > It does not matter whether you have entered the number exactly because > Excel has to transform your text into a floating point number. Since > there is no floating point number that has the value 0.15, Excel will > use a floating point number that is closest to 0.15 (in your example > 0.1500001). However, Excel performs some magic with floating point > values so that it will display "0.15" even if the floating point value > is 0.1500001 (seehttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ARITH_17.pdffor > some examples of what Excel does). Apparently Excel does not cope with > the case that the number is entered via some macro, hence you see the > slighly "off" values. This may be a bug, although some people rather > consider Excel's displaying "0.15" a bug. > > Regards, > Stuart
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