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DanielClark
Helper II
9 years ago
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Issue with measure return value - VALUE() - Cannot convert value '1.INF' of type text to type number

I am working with a few different measures that are used to standardise a set of values across multiple inputs. Now I have hit an issue where the PERCENTILEX.INC calculation is bringing back NaN f...
  • v-sihou-msft's avatar
    9 years ago

    DanielClark

     

    As the error message said, the involved column in your calculation is text type. You must convert the values like "5.71429E-05" into numbers then change the data type for both columns into decimal number.

     

    Regards,

  • DanielClark's avatar
    DanielClark
    9 years ago

    After reviewing the measures further, there was another measure being used further down in the chain of calculations that was still of Format General. Changing this to decimal solved the issue. I am not sure why all the other calculations could work with this scientific format without the conversion and PercentileX.Inc could not (as it appears). 

    Now Resolved.