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There are (were, cannot say if fixed and in which version) a couple ones that I remember.

One is not really an error, it is more like GIGO in the Average function:

https://exceloffthegrid.com/excels-average-function-the-hidd...

The other one is actually an error due to internal number storing (floating point):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/f...

More generally there is 15 digit precision that can create issues, but the "real bug" was in Excel 2007

77.1 multiplied by 850 gave apparently 100,000 instead of 65,535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59392

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2014/mar/excel-c...



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