Hi,
Could someone inform why a text value of 19 chars looses the last 4 chars when converted to a number?
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TX
Loosing numbers on conversion?
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Rudi
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Loosing numbers on conversion?
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Re: Loosing numbers on conversion?
Excel stores numbers with 15 significant digits, so anything over significant 15 digits is lost. Do you really need to perform calculations with 19-digit numbers?
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Re: Loosing numbers on conversion?
It was a request from someone I am supporting.
I didn't actually ask why they wanted to convert it to a number as the string of digits is actually three smaller numbers concatenated. I doubt it is for summing, but anyhow, you answered the question with the fact that Excel only stored significant decimals to 15 characters. TX.
I didn't actually ask why they wanted to convert it to a number as the string of digits is actually three smaller numbers concatenated. I doubt it is for summing, but anyhow, you answered the question with the fact that Excel only stored significant decimals to 15 characters. TX.
Regards,
Rudi
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Rudi
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