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Subject: [Discuss] Financial database / balance?
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:06:24 -0500
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On Jan 15, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> Actually, most spreadsheets use doubles.

Yes, they do, and Microsoft has a support page of workarounds for IEEE rounding errors in various versions of Excel because of them:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214118

--Rich P.

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