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powerbirino3
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Calculated column incorrect calculation

Hi guys,

 

I'm facing a problem which I've never seen using Power BI and I have no idea why.

 

The problem is that I have created a calculated column with a basic calculation like this: "Euros / Weight / Quantity" and results have no completly sense.

 

What I firstly 've done, is to create a calculated table using group by and addcolumns DAX functions, once I've had the desired format, I've added a calculated column called Quantity to the calculated table, and last step, I've added a calculated column called €/Kg (last column of the image).

 

Where is the problem? €/Kg column is wrong! Look at the results in the image

 

Sin título.png

 

For example, first row of the image:

1668,85 (EUROS) / 6600 (WEIGHT) / 0'03 (QUANTITY)

 

CALCULATOR

8'42

Result in Power BI10'11

 

I'm literally... WTF Smiley Frustrated

 

Thanks for any help

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Anonymous
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Working with decimals can be funny in places. Sometimes a number will display as rounded but systems will often keep the "true" figure.  An easy test might be to update your formula to something like

Round(Euros, 2) / Round(Weight, 2) / Round(Quantity, 2)

See if that changes the output any.

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Anonymous
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Is Quantity a rounded figure?  For example is the real figure on the first line 0.025 but its displaying as 0.03?

It's rounded to two decimals, yes, but in this case, "original" number is 0.03.

In my knowledge, this shouldn't affect, just decimals, right?

Anonymous
Not applicable

Working with decimals can be funny in places. Sometimes a number will display as rounded but systems will often keep the "true" figure.  An easy test might be to update your formula to something like

Round(Euros, 2) / Round(Weight, 2) / Round(Quantity, 2)

See if that changes the output any.

That did the trick.

 

Thanks

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