Chopped Liver Posted June 10, 2014 Share #1 Posted June 10, 2014 someone just asked me where $4200 difference between two reports is......the reports are dealling with $100 million . I couldn't care less about a $4200 difference. Won't change a damned thing in anyone's decision making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted June 10, 2014 Share #2 Posted June 10, 2014 someone just asked me where $4200 difference between two reports is......the reports are dealling with $100 million . I couldn't care less about a $4200 difference. Won't change a damned thing in anyone's decision making. But it could be reflective of inaccuracies in other aspects of the report. And bean counters will be bean counters - every bean is important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopped Liver Posted June 10, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted June 10, 2014 But it could be reflective of inaccuracies in other aspects of the report. And bean counters will be bean counters - every bean is important. Not bean counting....this is a trend report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted June 10, 2014 Share #4 Posted June 10, 2014 but, but it's .0042% of the total - that could mess up a trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted June 10, 2014 Share #5 Posted June 10, 2014 4,200 would buy a nice carbon ultegra bike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted June 10, 2014 Share #6 Posted June 10, 2014 4,200 would buy a nice carbon ultegra bike. Why do you think Mr. Liver siphoned it off. No one will ever notice and when they did ask, he just explained it away as a rounding error. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopped Liver Posted June 10, 2014 Author Share #7 Posted June 10, 2014 Why do you think Mr. Liver siphoned it off. No one will ever notice and when they did ask, he just explained it away as a rounding error. nice...but I work through the daily rounding of interest....all those 10ths of a penny add up, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted June 10, 2014 Share #8 Posted June 10, 2014 Why do you think Mr. Liver siphoned it off. No one will ever notice and when they did ask, he just explained it away as a rounding error. I saw a television documentary once about these three guys who put a program into the company system to siphon off fractions of pennies from interest and dump them into a special account. I think one guy goofed on the placing the decimal point in the calculation and the program started writing really big checks. I think there was a fire at the company and the TPS reports got burned up, so nobody was the wiser. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopped Liver Posted June 10, 2014 Author Share #9 Posted June 10, 2014 I saw a television documentary once about these three guys who put a program into the company system to siphon off fractions of pennies from interest and dump them into a special account. I think one guy goofed on the placing the decimal point in the calculation and the program started writing really big checks. I think there was a fire at the company and the TPS reports got burned up, so nobody was the wiser. I saw that same documentary....man, that one guy had a really cool stapler. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted June 10, 2014 Share #10 Posted June 10, 2014 Rounding errors. Or you can blame it on computers. There's a thing called floating point math errors. Computers don't use a base 10 number system like humans do. Therefore some strange errors can creep in. For example in old versions of Windows Calculator 3.1 - 3.11 = -9.99999999999979E-03 and not -0.1. This is still happening today. Here's something from Microsoft Access 2010: Debug.Print 3.1 - 3.11 -9.99999999999979E-03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted June 11, 2014 Share #11 Posted June 11, 2014 Rounding errors. Or you can blame it on computers. There's a thing called floating point math errors. Computers don't use a base 10 number system like humans do. Therefore some strange errors can creep in. For example in old versions of Windows Calculator 3.1 - 3.11 = -9.99999999999979E-03 and not -0.1. This is still happening today. Here's something from Microsoft Access 2010: Debug.Print 3.1 - 3.11 -9.99999999999979E-03 That was/is annoying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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