Margin Divisible by 5?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am looking to find a calculation that will tell me whether an item was sold at a margin divisible by five or not. i.e. ..., 35%, 40%, 45%, 50%, ... etc. I figured it would be simple using the MOD function. I tried each of the following

DivisibleBy5 = IF(MOD([Margin], 0.05) = 0, "Yes", "No")

DivisibleBy5 = IF(MOD([Margin] * 100, 5) = 0, "Yes", "No")

 Each give me an error saying "An argument of function 'MOD' has the wrong data type or the result is too large or too small". 

My [Margin] is a decimal number and classified as such. Any idea what's going wrong? Any other ways to get the result I'm looking for?

Thanks, 
Ryan

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

Please check the data type of the column [Margin]. If it is text, the formula will return #ERROR and you should change it to decimal number.

Thanks,
Yuliana Gu

[MattAllington]

Is margin a measure or a calc column? Is DivisibleBy5 a measure or a calc column?

[Anonymous]

@MattAllington 

Both are calculated columns. I want it to calculate per row.

[MattAllington]

Well it looks right. Can you post a sample of the values in the margin column?

[Anonymous]

@MattAllington

[MattAllington]

here is my formula and it works fine.  So I have to think something strange is happening to your data column.    Do you have any rougue values somewhere in the column?  Try writing a calc column =Max(table[total cost margin]) and see what you get

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@MattAllington

Sale Prices of $0.00 were creating -infinity values which was screwing it up. I stacked another IF statement on top of the other, saying IF([Sale]=0, IF(MOD([Margin], .05) = 0, "True", "False"), "False")

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am looking to find a calculation that will tell me whether an item was sold at a margin divisible by five or not. i.e. ..., 35%, 40%, 45%, 50%, ... etc. I figured it would be simple using the MOD function. I tried each of the following

DivisibleBy5 = IF(MOD([Margin], 0.05) = 0, "Yes", "No")

DivisibleBy5 = IF(MOD([Margin] * 100, 5) = 0, "Yes", "No")

 Each give me an error saying "An argument of function 'MOD' has the wrong data type or the result is too large or too small". 

My [Margin] is a decimal number and classified as such. Any idea what's going wrong? Any other ways to get the result I'm looking for?

Thanks, 
Ryan

[Phil_Seamark]

Try creating a calculated column that just uses the inner formula

Eg. Column = mod ([margin] , 5)

And what does that show?

[Anonymous]

@alanhodgson 

That results in an error. "The result of a conversion or arethmatic operation is either too large or too small.

@Phil_Seamark 

The calculated column  gives me "An argument of function 'MOD' has the wrong data type or the result is too large or too small" again. 

[Phil_Seamark]

Try MOD (int ([margin]*100) ,5)

[alanhodgson]

Hey @Anonymous,

The MOD function can be expressed in terms of the INT function: MOD(n, d) = n - d*INT(n/d)

Try this and see if the same error occurs:

DivisibleBy5 = IF(([Margin] - (0.05)*INT([Margin]/0.05)) = 0, "Yes", "No")

Hope this helps,

Alan