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You are here: Home / CM Tooltip Glossary Pro+ / QUOTIENT

QUOTIENT

posted on August 30, 2019

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Syntax

QUOTIENT(<numerator>, <denominator>)

Tutorial with example

QUOTIENT function performs a division and returns only the integer portion of the division result. Use this function when you want to discard the remainder of division.

In this video, I am going to show your how to calculate how late are your employees and how much would you discount of the payroll if you had a 2$ fee for each 15 min late using among others QUOTIENT function.

Keynotes:
03:00 Calculate how many minutes or hours and employee is late with DATEDIFF function
05:00 Calculate how many 15 minutes interval he is late : QUOTIENT function
10:00 Extract minutes from a time column in DAX: TIMEVALUE and MINUTE funcitons
12:00 Extract decimals from a number with MOD function
13:20 Convert a number to a logical function : true or false with INT function
14:00 Calculate payroll fee if employee is late

DAX Fridays! #139: Calculate hours late and penalty fees with QUOTIENT, MODE and TIMEVALUE

 

Download example files:

Download the pbix and excel file here.

Remarks

If either argument is non-numeric, QUOTIENT returns the #VALUE! error value.

You can use a column reference instead of a literal value for either argument. However, if the column that you reference contains a 0 (zero), an error is returned for the entire column of values.

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See Also:
  • MINUTE
  • MOD
  • TIMEVALUE
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