[WinPartners] FW: New bug found in Excel 2007 - Multiplication

[Don Montabana]

Forwarding information regarding a new bug found in Excel 2007.

Regards,

Don

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Good afternoon,

I'm broadcasting this message as a heads up and to let you know what
we are doing in regards to the matter.

A bug in Microsoft Excel 2007 was noticed and reported to us by Wes Esser,
our colleague in Sloan. Alex Kozlov, our Windows Platform Coordinator has
inquired with our Microsoft contacts as what Microsoft is doing and we are
working on a communication to let the community know either later this
evening or tomorrow morning, by when we should have something from
Microsoft.

If you have questions in regards to this, Alex is the person to talk to.

Thanks,
Jon

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2188504,00.asp

Excel 2007 Contains Serious Multiplication Bug
09.25.07 

   Total posts: 1 

	
We all learned how to multiply with pencil and paper, even great big numbers
and decimals. But when it comes to something important like a blueprint or a
scientific formula we reach for a calculator - or a spreadsheet. That's much
more reliable, right? Well, not if the spreadsheet is Excel 2007. 
Over the weekend a member of the microsoft.public.excel newsgroup revealed
that Excel 2007 thinks that 850*77.1 is 100,000. What's the correct answer?
Right, it should be 65,535. 
Other members verified that the error carries over into some (but not all)
calculations based on the incorrect result. Microsoft has been informed of
the bug, but hasn't yet formulated a response. 
If it were just 850*77.1 that gave a wrong answer, we could probably work
around that. But there are tons of other problem numbers, as I discovered
for myself. 
Read the rest of tis post at AppScout: "Excel Can't Multiply"


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Jonathan McIndoe Hunt     MIT EECS '97 617.253.0172
Manager Software Services
Client Support Services
Information Services & Technology, MIT
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