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Article #2183Re: Bug in EXCEL v. 2.2, and a flame
From: Jonathan King
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 18:48
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 18:48
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Interesting. My calculator (a Sharp EL-512 II) gives virtually the same erroneous square root as Excel! That is, the square root of .999975 is given as .999987499. It looks like this problem is not unique to Excel; to make its way into the entirely silicon brain of my calculator this error must be the result of an ancient and honorable (although badly conditioned) numerics routine... jking
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