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>Try:
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>round( a * b * c, 2 )=round( 0.3500000000 * 943 * .100, 2 )
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>You'll get false. There's some sort of problem connected with the number of decimal places.

You correct (naturally!)
maybe the fact that one has leading spaces and the other does not hat something to do with it
try ?val(trans( 0.3500000000 * 943 * .100))==val(trans(a*b*c))
it returns true