Community Spring Cleaning week is here! Join your fellow Maveryx in digging through your old posts and marking comments on them as solved. Learn more here!

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

Find answers, ask questions, and share expertise about Alteryx Designer Desktop and Intelligence Suite.
SOLVED

Why am i getting different results doing almost the same thing?

Voska
8 - Asteroid

Hello,

Can someone please explain why Alteryx math seems off?

image.png

4 REPLIES 4
jrgo
14 - Magnetar

@Voska,

 

My guess is that it's because you're not including the additional precision your [calc] expression is generating. The result preview is rounding for clarity.

Voska
8 - Asteroid

I don't think i am actual familiar with what you described, can you provide an example of precision setting you are referring to?  Thank you!

MSalvage
11 - Bolide

@Voska,

 

Pretty sure it is because Alteryx visually rounds to 6 decimal places. Meaning it shows 0.032877, but the true value retained in the [calc] might be 0.032876711038961038961038961033896 = 10.126027/308.

 

Hope this makes sense,

MSalvage

 

 

jrgo
14 - Magnetar

@Voska,

 

Illustration of decimal precisionIllustration of decimal precision 

Hope this helps!

Labels