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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. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    This variant of the round-to-nearest method is also called convergent rounding, statistician's rounding, Dutch rounding, Gaussian rounding, odd–even rounding, [6] or bankers' rounding. [ 7 ] This is the default rounding mode used in IEEE 754 operations for results in binary floating-point formats.

  4. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal ...

  5. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    From its first version Excel supported end-user programming of macros (automation of repetitive tasks) and user-defined functions (extension of Excel's built-in function library). In early versions of Excel, these programs were written in a macro language whose statements had formula syntax and resided in the cells of special-purpose macro ...

  6. Stirling's approximation - Wikipedia

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    An alternative formula for ! using the gamma function is ! =. (as can be seen by repeated integration by parts). Rewriting and changing variables x = ny , one obtains n ! = ∫ 0 ∞ e n ln ⁡ x − x d x = e n ln ⁡ n n ∫ 0 ∞ e n ( ln ⁡ y − y ) d y . {\displaystyle n!=\int _{0}^{\infty }e^{n\ln x-x}\,{\rm {d}}x=e^{n\ln n}n\int _{0 ...

  7. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    If the n + 1 digit is 5 not followed by other digits or followed by only zeros, then rounding requires a tie-breaking rule. For example, to round 1.25 to 2 significant figures: Round half away from zero rounds up to 1.3. This is the default rounding method implied in many disciplines [citation needed] if the required rounding method is not ...

  8. Truncation - Wikipedia

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    However, for negative numbers truncation does not round in the same direction as the floor function: truncation always rounds toward zero, the function rounds towards negative infinity. For a given number x ∈ R − {\displaystyle x\in \mathbb {R} _{-}} , the function ceil {\displaystyle \operatorname {ceil} } is used instead

  9. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    As the number of discrete events increases, the function begins to resemble a normal distribution. Comparison of probability density functions, () for the sum of ⁠ ⁠ fair 6-sided dice to show their convergence to a normal distribution with increasing , in accordance to the central limit theorem. In the bottom-right graph, smoothed profiles ...