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Arial36
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5 years ago
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Problems with very small numbers

Hello community! I have a doubt. I am making a panel of cryptocurrencies and some quote prices are very low, example: 0.00001 etc. For some reason, when the amounts are so small, Power BI converts them to scientific notation and shows them as seen in the cards in the attached image. How could I get it to show me the amount as 0, 0000 ... and not 5.00000E?

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi Arial36 

    I think your data type in Power Query is Decimal number as well.

    My sample in Power Query:

    So your card visual will show scientific notation value as underlying data if you set your column Format as Decimal number as below in column tool.

    You can try Currency in Format.

     

    Best Regards,

    Rico Zhou

     

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    5 years ago

    Hi Arial36 

    I think your data type in Power Query is Decimal number as well.

    My sample in Power Query:

    So your card visual will show scientific notation value as underlying data if you set your column Format as Decimal number as below in column tool.

    You can try Currency in Format.

     

    Best Regards,

    Rico Zhou

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. 

    • Arial36's avatar
      Arial36
      Frequent Visitor
      5 years ago

      >Thank you! That solved my problem 🙂

    • user1462's avatar
      user1462
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      3 years ago

      Hello Anonymous !

       I'm suffering from the same issue, but it has to be without any currency sign in my case, do you have any other suggestions about that? I was looking for any DAX formula to round it or I don't know basically for getting rid of these thousands of zeros... 
      (by the way, I didn't understand why it's between parenthesis)

      and here are the amounts in my column;

      If you have any other solution, that would be really really helpful for me 🙏

       

      Thank you very much in advance!

       

  • HashamNiaz's avatar
    HashamNiaz
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    5 years ago

    Hi Arial36 !

    Please set the data type of these numbers to be Decimal, Format as Decimal number & set the number of decimal places to be shown as per your requirement 5/6.

     

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    Now in your Card visual go to Data Label property & set Display units as [None]. You can also set value decimal places from auto to any number which suits your requirement.

     

    Regards,

    Hasham

     

     

    • Arial36's avatar
      Arial36
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      5 years ago

      Hi HashamNiaz  ! Thank you very much for your answer. Unfortunately that is the first thing I had done and it does not work. I do not know why the truth. In the tables the number looks good, but when they exceed the 4 zeros after the comma they are automatically displayed in scientific notation.