Comments on: Excel’s Interesting Bug: Thoughts http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/ 2+2=5, for large values of 2 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:41:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Margaret Patrick http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-25932 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:04:39 +0000 http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-25932 aifzqes32rnn4cj6 aifzqes32rnn4cj6

]]> by: Ntwiga http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-598 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:26:29 +0000 http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-598 Thinker, <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/09/25/calculation-issue-update.aspx" title="An update just came in from the mothership" rel="nofollow">An update just came in from the mothership</a>. Thinker,

An update just came in from the mothership.

]]> by: Debasis Pradhan http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-596 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:53:19 +0000 http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-596 Hi, you have done a nice investigation on the bug! Here is a link to a post, which throws more insights into the bug - http://software-testing-zone.blogspot.com/2007/09/multiplication-bug-in-microsoft-excel.html . Hope you would like it! -Debasis Hi, you have done a nice investigation on the bug! Here is a link to a post, which throws more insights into the bug - http://software-testing-zone.blogspot.com/2007/09/multiplication-bug-in-microsoft-excel.html . Hope you would like it!

-Debasis

]]> by: Ntwiga http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-594 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:32:33 +0000 http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/#comment-594 Nice, did you find this yourself? By the way, I tried this in Excel 2003 and the bug does not exist. Dare I suggest that this is an artifact of integer (vs. float) variables for the math: Excel 2007 is probably trying to carry out the operations using integers and is getting messed up when the result overflows. Nice, did you find this yourself?

By the way, I tried this in Excel 2003 and the bug does not exist.

Dare I suggest that this is an artifact of integer (vs. float) variables for the math: Excel 2007 is probably trying to carry out the operations using integers and is getting messed up when the result overflows.

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