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nickuhlenhuth
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The DIVIDE function doesn't work in PowerBI. It is multiplying results by 3.

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Resolved now.

 

The issue was that I was creating a Column using DIVIDE between two aggregated columns that had 3 rows.

Once I changed to use DIVIDE within a Measure, it worked as expected.

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d_gosbell
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Are you saying that DIVIDE( exp1, exp2 )  produces a different result to exp1 / exp2 ? This does not sound right. Can you post a screenshot with a table showing the denominator, numerator and the result of the divide function?

Resolved now.

 

The issue was that I was creating a Column using DIVIDE between two aggregated columns that had 3 rows.

Once I changed to use DIVIDE within a Measure, it worked as expected.

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