what is this value means 1.845E-07 in excel?

excel scientific-notation
Red Swan picture Red Swan · May 5, 2010 · Viewed 253.5k times · Source

I am reading the excel sheet from C# by using interop services. My sheet has one of cell value as 0.00. but run time when I am checking the value of that cell in C# code I am getting "1.845E-07" this value. When I check in excel sheet, on that cell right clicked , say format cell I got "1.845E-07" value in sample section. How to get exact value? Please help me. The code is huge, so I can't provide it here. that line is:

if (Convert.ToString(((Excel.Range)worksheet.Cells[iRowindex, colIndex_q10]).Value2) != string.Empty)
{
    drRow[dtSourceEXLData.Columns[constants.Floor]] = ((Excel.Range)worksheet.Cells[iRowindex, colIndex_q10]).Value2.ToString();
}

Same problem with Date cells "39448". what does this means??please help....

Answer

Kjetil Watnedal picture Kjetil Watnedal · May 5, 2010

1.84E-07 is the exact value, represented using scientific notation, also known as exponential notation.

1.845E-07 is the same as 0.0000001845. Excel will display a number very close to 0 as 0, unless you modify the formatting of the cell to display more decimals.

C# however will get the actual value from the cell. The ToString method use the e-notation when converting small numbers to a string.

You can specify a format string if you don't want to use the e-notation.

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