>Hi Bruce,
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>>Here's one: we needed SQRT in Crystal a while back, but they had none. Eventually they came out with a patch that had one, but for a while, you had to do your own...
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>Couldn't you add a SQRoot column to your cursor or something? I've never used Crystal so this may be way off base.
No, it was needed on a column's sum in a report, so that wasn't an option...note that
SQRT(2) + SQRT(2) != SQRT(4) < s >
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
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