Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft is a master of censorship
"Microsoft Excel fails math test
Employee blogger wrote that some multiplication results incorrect
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have
to relearn part of its multiplication table.
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.
"Further testing showed a similar phenomenon with 65,536 as well," Gainer
wrote Tuesday. He said Excel was actually performing the calculations
correctly, but when it comes time to show the answer on the screen, it
messes up.
Gainer said the bug is limited to six numbers from 65,534.99999999995 to
65,535, and six numbers from 65,535.99999999995 to 65,536, and that
Microsoft is working hard to fix the problem."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/
You're a master of idiocy and hypocrisy and running away (killfiling
everyone who doesn't agree with you), Roy "Let Me Show You My Mad Windows
Skillz" Schestowitz.
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