>Hello!
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>I was wondering if anyone has a solution for a problem I have run up against.
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>I'm trying to figure out a way in VFP to divide two numbers and have the result be more than the 18 decimal place limitation in VFP.
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>As an example: If I was to divide 1 by 467891 and calculate to 50 decimal places the result would be: 0.00000213724991504431587698844388970935538405312348
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>But if I try to do this same thing in VFP the most I can get is: 0.000002137249915000
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>What I want to do is the same thing in VFP that is found at the following website (written in Java Script)
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http://www.vsv.slu.se/johnb/java/divide.htm>
>Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated!
Why on earth do you need so many sig figs?
To put some perspective on this, 50 sig figs lets you express the mass of the observable universe accurate to about 200kg.
Regards. Al
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