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Excel cell number formatting should have a significant digits opt.



 
 
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Old October 26th, 2004, 10:09 PM
Sleep Scientist
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Default Excel cell number formatting should have a significant digits opt.

One should be able to format a cell in Excel so that the number of
significant digits stays constant, no matter how the digits or decimal places
change. You get something like this with the "Scientific" number format, but
it's not as intuitive to look at.
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Old October 26th, 2004, 11:02 PM
Frank Kabel
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Hi
maybe the following helps you:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/formulae/sigfigs.html

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One should be able to format a cell in Excel so that the number of
significant digits stays constant, no matter how the digits or

decimal places
change. You get something like this with the "Scientific" number

format, but
it's not as intuitive to look at.


 




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