Storing and performing calculations on long decimals in Excel without being rounded

Question

I am attempting to do some calculations in Excel on numbers that include long decimals.

However, Excel doesn\'t seem to let me populate the cells with the numbers I woul

Answer 1

This has to do with the number precision Excel can handle. I noticed that I can show the .00000000030000000000 portion just fine if you remove the integer part. Maybe you could have a separate column for your integer, do your calculations on the decimal part and afterwards add the integer part again. You can check the wiki regarding this issue - by adding the 600,000, you are essentially adding 6e5+3e-8, which Excel has to work with cummulative bit depth. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel