Freakiness abounding

[nolawitch58]

I spent a couple of hours today on an Excel spreadsheet that simply would not behave. I thought I was completely demented and had two other coworkers go over the numbers. There were four figures: one of which was a debit and the other three credits. Added, they should have come to zero. They did not. I pulled the total column out to ten decimal places and there were inexplicable numbers where there should not have been. Finally, our IT support person said to Google it. There is a known Excel calculation error associated with one of the numbers I was trying to foot. I was so glad I wasn't crazy.

Top that off with another number problem with our system's IBAN checker and how it read numbers and today felt as though Rod Serling was lurking somewhere in the vicinity. I did what seemed rational; I bought a quick pick lottery ticket. Some of the same numbers from the spreadsheet fiasco appeared on it. Let's see what transpires from the maelstrom of coincidences.

Comments

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

If you win, you have to buy me a drink!

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Deal, my dear.

[real-skeptic.livejournal.com]

Very rational indeed! :) Let's hope your ticket fee goes to a good cause.

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Now, I'm glad to know you can't "negatively" win on a lottery. Since this one's based on an Excel spreadsheet, you'd probably lose your house ;-).

[ozanbaba.livejournal.com]

this is why i use fixed point