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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel maintains 15 figures in its numbers, but they are not always accurate; mathematically, the bottom line should be the same as the top line, in 'fp-math' the step '1 + 1/9000' leads to a rounding up as the first bit of the 14 bit tail '10111000110010' of the mantissa falling off the table when adding 1 is a '1', this up-rounding is not undone when subtracting the 1 again, since there is no ...

  3. Check digit - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the UPC-A barcode for a box of tissues is "036000241457". The last digit is the check digit "7", and if the other numbers are correct then the check digit calculation must produce 7. Add the odd number digits: 0+6+0+2+1+5 = 14. Multiply the result by 3: 14 × 3 = 42. Add the even number digits: 3+0+0+4+4 = 11.

  4. Logical spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    A logical spreadsheet is a spreadsheet in which formulas take the form of logical constraints rather than function definitions.. In traditional spreadsheet systems, such as Excel, cells are partitioned into "directly specified" cells and "computed" cells and the formulas used to specify the values of computed cells are "functional", i.e. for every combination of values of the directly ...

  5. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

  6. Symbolic Link (SYLK) - Wikipedia

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    XL (Excel) Possible fields: N If present, file uses ;N style cell protection If absent, file uses ;P style cell protection E If present, NE records are redundant If absent, NE records are not redundant; B record Use: Tells number of rows and columns in the spreadsheet. Recommended that it come before C and F records; Record type: B; Mandatory ...

  7. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    In Microsoft Excel, these functions are defined using Visual Basic for Applications in the supplied Visual Basic editor, and such functions are automatically accessible on the worksheet. Also, programs can be written that pull information from the worksheet, perform some calculations, and report the results back to the worksheet.

  8. Location arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Napier performed multiplication and division on an abacus, as was common in his times. However, Egyptian multiplication gives an elegant way to carry out multiplication without tables using only doubling, halving and adding. Multiplying a single-digit number by another single-digit number is a simple process.

  9. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Floor function: if x is a real number, ⌊ ⌋ is the greatest integer that is not greater than x. ⌈ ⌉ Ceiling function: if x is a real number, ⌈ ⌉ is the lowest integer that is not lesser than x. ⌊ ⌉