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Sreeramnewbie
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Posted:
Hi,

I was trying to read numeric value from an excel file.I used the function "cell.getNumericCellValue()" to read the column. Some times the value is fetched correctly and some times it returns a high precision value( ie, some times the value 118.474 is fetched as 118.4739999999), while I require the exact value.
The format type of the column in the excel is "custom".

Can any one please help me on this?

Sreeram
pkBRONZE Member
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Posted:
118.4739999999 ...considering excel uses better calculations than myself I'd say that figure was most likely to be correct when 118.474 may look logically correct.

I'm no mathematician nor excel user.

Good luck.
Deamon_LlamaBRONZE Member
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Posted:
I can show mathematically that 118.4739999999 is actually equal to 118.474, but I don't think that will be particularly useful, sorry frown

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YakumoSILVER Member
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Posted:
are you always reading cell.getNumericCellValue into a variable with a datatype that can hold the full value? and are all the fields your reading from definitely formatted correctly?



same problem is discussed here though you havn't actually said what language you're programming/scripting in...

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Mr ChutneySILVER Member
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Nor indeed why you are posting this on a poi forum?!

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