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$5 difference due to rounding?

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From

14/11/2006 16:21:30

Naomi Nosonovsky
Wisconsin, United States

To

14/11/2006 16:06:35

John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand

General information

Forum:

Visual FoxPro

Category:

Coding, syntax & commands

Title:

Re: $5 difference due to rounding?

Environment versions

Visual FoxPro:

VFP 8 SP1

OS:

Windows XP

Database:

Visual FoxPro

Miscellaneous

Thread ID:

01169448

Message ID:

01169648

Views:

14

>Naomi,
>
>Currency values are rounded to 4 decimal places, even if you can only see 2.
>
>Try this:
>
>

>*---calculate commission of 33%
>
>? 24.93 *33/100
>
>? $24.93 *33/100
>
>

Thanks. In my case the values I operate with are all numeric to begin with, so perhaps I should not use currency as well.

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