Talk:Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel

Repeating information

Is seems not all of this article's content is specific to Excel, and thus is already covered elsewhere. Couldn't this article be shortened significantly? --Mortense (talk) 11:47, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

This suggestion could be made more useful it were made specific just what is found elsewhere with links to where the duplicate content is located. Brews ohare (talk) 17:48, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

First two references of footnote #9 are currently dead links. 63.156.219.125 (talk) 19:17, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

not sure whether it it is an EXCEL-Problem

A kitchen scales (soehnle) indicates at the beginning "18.888" for a seccond and the shows a a regular "0" to start regular measuring. Remember that the similar problem can happen when starting a specific EXCEL computation using extensive precision.

Is that an issue related to this topic -any hint?

--Gaschroeder (talk) 19:12, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

@Gaschroeder:, the behaviour you mention is completely unrelated to Excel's precision. When the kitchen scales switch on, all segments of the seven-segment display digits are lit up briefly, before the display settles down to its zero starting position. This is a deliberate feature that provides a visual test that all segments are working. This mitigates errors due to failed segments (for example if the bottom-left segment of a digit fails, a 6 will appear as a 5). -Stelio (talk) 15:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC)