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STR() rounds numbers longer than 17 digits...?

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From

03/01/2001 13:39:26

Garrett Fitzgerald
Penobscot Community Health Care
Maine, United States

To

03/01/2001 10:33:46

Larry Miller
Gambrills, Maryland, United States

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Forum:

Visual FoxPro

Category:

Coding, syntax & commands

Title:

Re: STR() rounds numbers longer than 17 digits...?

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Thread ID:

00458883

Message ID:

00459016

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25

>VFP doesn't handle numbers greater than 16 digits of precision (left and right of decimal point). It rounds from there.
>
>Check out the Help
>Visual FoxPro Documentation - Using Visual FoxPro - Programmer's Guide - Appendix - Visual FoxPro System Capacities - Digits of Precision in Numeric Computations

Or, more helpfully (IMNSHO), Q259562 INFO: The Visual FoxPro Digits of Precision.

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