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Why does Excel make rounding errors?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

All computers make rounding errors because they have only a finite amount of memory in which they can store numbers.

While it is possible to increase the amount of memory allocated for storing each number, doing so would slow down the processing.

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