Increment by 3 decimal places

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I have a float variable that I am incrementing for each object in a flow, it starts at 1.001 and then increments by 0.001 using the "Increment Variable" function.

It works fine till it gets to 1.004, I increment it again by 0.001 but the next number returned is 1.00499999999999999 and so on, how can I get it to increment by 3 places exactly? thanks

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Ish S 96 on at

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Hello senna,

I was able to increment a float variable and I got the expected results.

Would you be able to share a piece of your workflow?

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thanks @Ish S, I don't think .004 is the issue, its just if it gets incremented many times in a loop, by the 4th or 5th loop of incrementing it by 0.001 it actually increments it by 0.00099999999999999

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David_MA 14,605 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Float values in Power Automate use binary floating-point precision (IEEE 754 - Wikipedia) rather than decimal-point precision. You can use an expression to convert your variable to show three decimal places: formatNumber(variables('Value'), '0.000')

Since you don't show your flow, I created a basic example:

Result:

You can use the output of the Compose action for whatever you are doing.

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VictorIvanidze 13,081 on at

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Use integers to increment/decerement.

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