Another good reason to leave data inside Oracle

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21033161/

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spread*** program is going to
have to relearn part of its multiplication table.

In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer
users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the
result was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 100,000 as the
answer.

Gainer said Excel 2007 makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by 850, 10.2 by
6,425 and 20.4 by 3,212.5, but the program appears to be able to handle
16,383.75 times 4.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
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