Excel is unusable for finance or accounting.
- From: baobob@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:16:26 -0700
Re. Excel's inability to calculate decimal numbers precisely, due to
(pardon a layman's poss. wrong wording) using floating-point math to
handle simple fractions and decimals (see thread 'Glaring Excel calc
bug' in this group), Harlan Grove on July 2 provided the same answer
Paul Lynde once did on Hollywood Squares:
Peter Marshall: Now listen carefully, Paul. If you have one it's a
moose. If you have two, it's a....?
Lynde: It's a mess!
Two rhetorical Q's:
1) How can anyone use Excel for finance, accounting, or many
applications with dollars & cents, decimals, or simple fractions?
2) Why don't the dopes who write Excel LET you select either FP or
decimal storage?
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