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Rounding decimal numbers
i have found a problem with ROUND function.
what i was doing is as follows
i have one price column, one quantity column in my table
i am getting data from dynamics RMS where at the POS, customers will always get charged in this format xxx.xx (x is number 0-9)
initially RMS is rounding up PRICE*QUANTITY by 2 decimal numbers
POWER BI is sowing different amounts than RMS itself
6 hours spend on a table with 10M rows.
FINALLY I FOUND THIS
PRICE (0.75) * QUANTITY (2.3) = 1.725 (UNROUNDED)
NOW ON THIS RESULT I tried using TRANSFORM->ROUND with decimal number=2
i found result = 1.72----------
basically it didnt round the number. CORRECT RESULT = 1.73 (according to other softwares that exist)
HERE IS THE PATTERN THAT I HAVE NOTICED.
if a number has 3 decimal digits (1.XXX) and if that last X=5. the number will not be rounded.
For Example: 1.265 3.485 6.895 1.235 5.695 4.565
I dont know why it is doing that because those two columns containt numbers only. no reason for power bi to get cunfused.
lucklly i found this becuase i was cross checking my report with my initial software (dynamics RMS)
looks like a small number but for a company who is adding 500K rows of data into that table eberyday. the change in final amount will be big.