Re: Another good reason to leave data inside Oracle

From: Ed Prochak <edprochak_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:05:46 -0000
Message-ID: <1191261946.686981.91800@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>

On Sep 29, 12:12 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> Source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/
>
> 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 2007 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.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org

What makes this amusing is that is is published from MSNBC!

Hilarious! Received on Mon Oct 01 2007 - 13:05:46 CDT