thanks everyone,
i just added in lots of 0's and it worked
~M

>Mark,
>
>You are creating to fields that are N(4,2) which apparently is not big enough to accommodate your results, try using more zeroes like
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sele *, 0000000.00 as field1, 0000000.00 as field2 where.. into cursor temp1 readwrite

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>>hi all,
>>I have a problem updating a writable cursor. basically it goes like this
>>

>>sele *, 0.00 as field1, 0.00 as field2 where.. into cursor temp1 readwrite
>>do while not eof
>>
>>    repl field1 with numeric_value * 2.5
>>    repl field2 with field1 * other_numeric_field
>>
>>    loop
>>enddo
>>

>>i get a numeric overflow error on these two lines sometimes but i have no idea why, any ideas?
>>~M