Re: inconsistent webcat calculation?

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15008
interpreted = N
texte = >Just out of curiosity is there something bogus about the former way I did it?No, but you didn't say what was wrong either. I'll assume the numbers are slightly different, and that you were getting rounding errors based on your .2f formatting.Inside a math context, all numbers are computed out to a zillion digits. If you force the numbers down to fewer digits, they get rounded up or down.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: inconsistent webcat calculation? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. inconsistent webcat calculation? (w curt eggemeyer 1997)
>Just out of curiosity is there something bogus about the former way I did it?No, but you didn't say what was wrong either. I'll assume the numbers are slightly different, and that you were getting rounding errors based on your .2f formatting.Inside a math context, all numbers are computed out to a zillion digits. If you force the numbers down to fewer digits, they get rounded up or down.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Grant Hulbert

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