[PRL] Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug

Mitch mwand1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 11:13:27 EDT 2007


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via The J-Walk Blog on 9/25/07
Oops... Major bug in MS Excel 2007.

Got a copy of Excel 2007 handy? Try multiplying 850 by 77.1 - the
answer should be 65535. Excel 2007 thinks it's 100000.

More information in this Excel newsgroup thread.
As it turns out, other formulas that should return 65,535 display as
100,000.


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Microsoft has reportedly begun offering a downgrade option to PC makers
who want to allow their customers to have the option of using XP over
the pre-installed Vista software.

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