Decimal in manual calculator but no decimal in Excel

newgirl · Oct 12th 2021

Hi, guys! Maybe you have an explanation on this one?

I'm computing 4000/3*6 in both physical calculator and in Excel but I get different values.

Excel shows it as 8000 but in my calculator, it shows 7999.999999999

**rory** · Oct 12th 2021

Excel is correct since 4000/3*6 is the same as 4000*6/3 which is 4000*2

I suspect your calculator is losing precision after the first step since the result is a recurring decimal.

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