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Microsoft admits to calculation problem in Excel
If there is one program in Office you don't want problems with, it Excel used by financial people the world over. Sadly this is just what has happened if the result of the sum is around 65,535.
MIcrosoft has admited the problem but said that it is actually in the way that the result is displayed. It seems that the number in memory is right so a reference to that cell will give the right answer in a subsequent formula.
It's a good lesson that even computers can make mistakes, or rather computers are programmed by people who can make mistakes.
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