Help

The Community will be temporarily unavailable starting on Friday February 28. We’ll be back as soon as we can! To learn more, check out our Announcements blog post.

Revenue Formula Rounding Randomly

Topic Labels: Formulas
557 4
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
sibbotso
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

sibbotso_0-1732559442557.png

Revenue = Quantity * Price

7496.90 = 150 * 49.98

Why is the number rounding up to 7497.00????

Another Example: $205.80 = 25 * $8.23

The value I get in my Revenue Cell is rounded down to $205.75.

Here is the revenue formula vs. what it should be. The numbers are rounding weirdly.

sibbotso_0-1732562854558.png

 

 

4 Replies 4
Ron_Daniel
8 - Airtable Astronomer
8 - Airtable Astronomer

@sibbotso -
In my calculator, 150 * $49.98 does equal $7,497.00. And 25 x $8.23 does equal $205.75.
Why are you expecting to see $7496.90 and $205.80?

sibbotso
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Haha you're not wrong...

Here's how I got here: In the interest of making revenue a calculated field moving forward, so that upon a sale, the sales person can simply enter the quantity and price corresponding to the sale. I divided what was a static value of $7496.90 (which is the real amount money received) by the quantity sold to find the per unit price of all the past sales.

$7496.90 / Quantity (150) = 49.98

I then imported all the unit prices into Air table and multiplied them by the quantity.

49.98*150 = $7,497.00

Am I losing my mind? I need the numbers to add up to $7496.90

Ron_Daniel
8 - Airtable Astronomer
8 - Airtable Astronomer

LOL! Yeah, I can see how that would happen. At least you know you got the Airtable part right! 👍

You're not losing your mind. But you seem to have introduced a rounding error in the Price column by rounding 49.9793333333 to 49.98

Use the value till i'd say, 8th decimal, to get rid of the error.