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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel maintains 15 figures in its numbers, but they are not always accurate; mathematically, the bottom line should be the same as the top line, in 'fp-math' the step '1 + 1/9000' leads to a rounding up as the first bit of the 14 bit tail '10111000110010' of the mantissa falling off the table when adding 1 is a '1', this up-rounding is not undone when subtracting the 1 again, since there is no ...

  3. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    Formulas in the B column multiply values from the A column using relative references, and the formula in B4 uses the SUM() function to find the sum of values in the B1:B3 range. A formula identifies the calculation needed to place the result in the cell it is contained within. A cell containing a formula, therefore, has two display components ...

  4. Checkbox - Wikipedia

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    A checkbox (check box, tickbox, tick box) is a graphical widget that allows the user to make a binary choice, i.e. a choice between one of two possible mutually exclusive options. For example, the user may have to answer 'yes' (checked) or 'no' (not checked) on a simple yes/no question .

  5. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The subtraction operator: a binary operator to indicate the operation of subtraction, as in 5 − 3 = 2. Subtraction is the inverse of addition. [1] The function whose value for any real or complex argument is the additive inverse of that argument. For example, if x = 3, then −x = −3, but if x = −3, then −x = +3.

  6. Subtraction - Wikipedia

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    Subtraction of natural numbers is not closed: the difference is not a natural number unless the minuend is greater than or equal to the subtrahend. For example, 26 cannot be subtracted from 11 to give a natural number. Such a case uses one of two approaches: Conclude that 26 cannot be subtracted from 11; subtraction becomes a partial function.

  7. Addition - Wikipedia

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    Subtraction is itself a sort of inverse to addition, in that adding x and subtracting x are inverse functions. Given a set with an addition operation, one cannot always define a corresponding subtraction operation on that set; the set of natural numbers is a simple example.

  8. Catastrophic cancellation - Wikipedia

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    Given numbers and , the naive attempt to compute the mathematical function by the floating-point arithmetic ⁡ (⁡ ⁡ ()) is subject to catastrophic cancellation when and are close in magnitude, because the subtraction can expose the rounding errors in the squaring.

  9. Method of complements - Wikipedia

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    Use the same method to subtract 856 from 1000, and then add a negative sign to the result. Represent negative numbers as radix complements of their positive counterparts. Numbers less than b n / 2 {\displaystyle b^{n}/2} are considered positive; the rest are considered negative (and their magnitude can be obtained by taking the radix complement).