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Message: [QUOTE="Markus, post: 4446203"] Yes, that's exactly why it's there. But there are several reasons (e.g. Benford's Law [URL]http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BenfordsLaw.html[/URL]) why it doesn't even work for its intended purpose. The real answer is to not re-round the data. As for developing strong feelings about it, all you need to do is work downstream from someone who swears by it and try to do some valid numerical analysis. The only person I ever knew with a worse lament was a friend who worked downstream of an astronomy professor (who should have been emeritusized years before) that routinely converted his images to jpeg "to save disk space." -- Markus [/QUOTE]