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Every afternoon when my husband comes home for lunch (we live 6 blocks from his lab) I rub his head, and he reads my blog entries.<\/p>\n

Yesterday<\/a> he pointed out that a better way to get the closest nice number that is a multiple of 8 would be to use a formula more like this- =Int(number\/8+.5)*8<\/p>\n

The +.5 part makes sure that if you are closer to the higher multiple, you get there. Otherwise your numbers are too low most of the time.<\/p>\n

So, here is a better way to get to a nice number.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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