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AndrewKonopacki

Qrew Member

3 years ago

Need some help, formula for calculating Significant Figures

I have a formula in excel that performs the task I need. When I build it in QuickBase I'm not getting the same results. I stripped it down to the basics, here are the two results. I need to return a v...

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Qrew Cadet

3 years ago

HI Andrew;
If I understood correctly you want to round to 10's.
You can try,

Round([Number], 10)

Round(26.6, 10) ==> returns 30

I hope this helps :)

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Razi D.
Desta Tech LLC
razi@destatechs.com
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AndrewKonopacki
Qrew Member
3 years ago
Correct. I came to the same conclusion last night after giving it some more thought. 95% of my values will be less than 10k, but would still need to be able to stay within my 2 sig fig parameter if the number got to 100k or more. This works fine for my application. Thanks again for both of your inputs!

If([M1 - Spores m3]<100, Round([M1 - Spores m3],1),
[M1 - Spores m3]<999, Round([M1 - Spores m3],10),
[M1 - Spores m3]<9999, Round([M1 - Spores m3],100),
[M1 - Spores m3]<99999, Round([M1 - Spores m3],1000),
[M1 - Spores m3]>99999, Round([M1 - Spores m3],10000))

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Andrew Konopacki
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