>Jeff,
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>While this sounds onerous and ominous, it *does* also seem like someone has probably supplied the answer!
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>In your statements below you say:
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>>But without the program running, if I type variable1 = 0.04998, variable2 = variable1 * 217.18, I get the correct answer.
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>>I am unable to reproduce this by creating a new program.
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>Your previous message stated that the data is actually coming from another data source (SQL Server if I remember).
>It certainly follows in my mind that there is a direct connection between *THAT* particular data and the behaviour observed. It would appear that the 'translation' of the data is consistent BUT not quite as expected.
>I have no idea as to the exact translations performed, but would hope that it is documented somewhere. I'm betting that that is where the answer lies.
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>good luck,
>Jim N

I think that would be a very good bet. Now that you mention it, I'm reminded of a previous problem I had. I had a remote view of a MS SQL Server table, and when I would enter a certain amount into a field, it would convert to another number. I think I was entering 65.1 and VFP would convert it to 65.09 (or the other way around, I can't remember). Anyway, the problem turned out to be witht he ODBC driver I was using. I was using the drive that installed with the SQL Server Enterprise Manager client. When I switched back to the drive that ships with VFP 5.0a, the problem went away.

Jeff