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As with other spreadsheets, [[Microsoft Excel]] works only to limited accuracy because it retains only a certain number of figures to describe numbers (it has limited [[Arithmetic precision|precision]]). With some exceptions regarding erroneous values, infinities, and denormalized numbers, Excel calculates in [[double-precision floating-point format]] from the [[IEEE 754-2008|IEEE 754 specification]]<ref name=microsoft_spec>