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sraj
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Percent decrease in measure

Hi,

Can someone please advise on this?  Probably something very silly, but I really need some input as my value in the visual is showing as '78,860,674,807' instead of what the calculator says '78,855,304,155'.

 

A = 79,132,267,090

B = 0.35%

Return = 78,855,304,155

 

How do I get this in a measure?

79,132,267,090 – 0.35% = 78,855,304,155

 

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DOLEARY85
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Hi,

 

try this measure:

 

Measure 3 = calculate(sum('Table (3)'[A])*(1-0.0035))
 
or for 0.35% use a column to transform it into the decimal number 0.0035 and replace that in the measure with the new field
 
If I answered your question, please mark my post as solution, Appreciate your Kudos 👍

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DOLEARY85
Resident Rockstar
Resident Rockstar

Hi,

 

try this measure:

 

Measure 3 = calculate(sum('Table (3)'[A])*(1-0.0035))
 
or for 0.35% use a column to transform it into the decimal number 0.0035 and replace that in the measure with the new field
 
If I answered your question, please mark my post as solution, Appreciate your Kudos 👍

Souvik0812
Frequent Visitor

Hi @sraj,

Is this value coming from a column?

If this value is from a column, try this:

Measure = SUM('Table'[Column]) - SUM('Table'[Column]) * 0.35
DAX needs aggregation, it can't recongnise column names directly.

If this is a constant value, you can simply do the multiply and then substract:
Measure 2 = 79132267090 * 0.35
 
Feel free to ask if you have any confusion.


sraj
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A is not a column = It is a calculated Value from a total measure i.e.

(712141429 + 78420125661) = 79,132,267,090

B 0.35% is a calculated value too and is not going to be constant.

 

Right now this is what I am doing 

A = [X] + [Y]

[X] + [Y] * (1 -([B]))

Sorry, it's not clear.
Are you doing(?):

A = [X] + [Y]

* (1 -([B]))
 
And to achieve this, should you put a parantheses as:

A = [X] + [Y]

([X] + [Y]) * (1 -([B]))

I am not sure if I can provide a solution to your issue, however, when I back calculate, I see it's actually 0.003432 very near to 0.35%. Is it showing 0.35% sue to 2 decimal places and the actual underlying value is different? This might be the reason for your visual showing a value different than the one in calculator.

sraj
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Yes, that's correct it is showing 0.35% to 2 decimal places.  

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