Bug Report for Excel

[David V.S.]

I found a bug in the Excel GCD function.

I blogged about it here:
http://davidvs.blogspot.com/2006/04/bug-in-excel.html

To summarize, try typing into a cell
=GCD(6*0.018*1000,1000)
and you'll see that Excel gets confused. :-(

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[Ron Rosenfeld]

I found a bug in the Excel GCD function.

I blogged about it here:
http://davidvs.blogspot.com/2006/04/bug-in-excel.html

To summarize, try typing into a cell
=GCD(6*0.018*1000,1000)
and you'll see that Excel gets confused. :-(

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There seems to be some issue as to how the result is truncated to an integer
within the GCD function as documented.

For example:

=GCD(TRUNC(6*0.018*1000),1000)-->4

Although

A1: =6*0.018*1000
A2: 108
A3: =A1=A2 --> TRUE


--ron