Can you be more explicit about the rounding that's wrong in Excel?
Are you talking about the ....n5 round-up to n+1 that Excel uses
vs. ....n5 round-to-even n (sometimes called Banker's Rounding)?
-- Andy
On May 12, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Justin wrote:
I have very annoying problem that i would like to get a work
around in place so the data entry people stop trying to kill me.
Normally people give quotes out of the price book which was done in
Excel like 15 years ago and just has been updated over the years.
the problem is excel is rounding differently than postgres 8.3.1
(Yes i know Excel rounds incorrectly) which results in normally
being pennies off but on large qty its usually under a few bucks on
the postgresql side. We internally don't care but those annoying
customers scream bloody murder if the quote don't agree to the
penny on the invoice Even when its to their benefit .
Has anyone every got Postgresql and Excel to agree on rounding.
I have checked excel up to Office XP and its still wrong. (open
office was looked out and the people screamed really loudly NO )
Another annoying thing is the calculators on everyones desk get it
wrong to if the rounding is turned to 2 places.
Although my TI-89, and TI-36X calculators agree perfectly with
postgresql .
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