Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
by colejohnson66 on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:25PM
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Why is it that a program that people use for accounting doesn’t use arbitrary precision arithmetic?
Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
by jz391 on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:44PM
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Because for accounting the numbers easily fit in the supported range; even the US National Debt (https://www.usdebtclock.org/)...
You should not use Excel to do any serious mathematics, or really anything else where numerical precision is important.