>Hi Fabio,
> Thanks for taking the time to respond. Is it too much to ask for mathematical function that I believe the schools are teaching around the 3rd grade to just 'work right'? 823.4721345000 * 10 = 8234.721345000 except when I situationally decide to tack a 1 on the end of it? I think that's not how they're teaching it <g>.
>
>Thanks again... I'll be toying w/ a few ideas & see what works best for me.
>

You cannot use school's math rules.
A simple example is this,
change the sum addendum order,and the result changes:

CLEAR

a= -1.0
? (a - 0.1 - a + 0.1)*10000000.00000000

* same addition but in revert order
* return a different value
? (0.1 - a - 0.1 + a)*10000000.00000000