Fun with Excel 2007

Microsoft Excel fails math test

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In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the result was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 100,000 as the answer.

Gainer said Excel makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by 850, 10.2 by 6,425 and 20.4 by 3,212.5, but the program appears to be able to handle 16,383.75 times 4.


Comment: I actually found this hard to believe. But the above image is from my Vista workstation with Excel 2007. Microsoft will fix .. so it is not a big deal. It's just a little embarrassing (for them)!