Eric;

I have an engineering background. Having worked with computers since 1962 when I built my first main frame I separate such results into two categories – hardware and software. It could be either. In the case of hardware the CPU could easily be the cause. Greater degrees of accuracy become questionable with some chips. The only way to tell is to take the suspect computer and define which CPU it uses. Then load a different OS (the one that gives the “uniform result” on the other machines) and give it a try. You could also load the new OS on a machine that gives a “uniform result”.

Hand calculators are notorious for giving different results depending upon the chip set and degree of accuracy required.

Good luck! Let us know what you find.


Tom


>Hi
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>I have a big problem this morning.
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>I have an application that runs on multiple PCs (all using the same version of the application and all connected to the same database). One of them is running XP while all the others are running W2K.
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>On the XP system, I have some calculations that are totalling to 8863.27 (while it is giving me 8863.26 on all other PCs).
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>Anyone else found something like this? Are you aware of a setting somewhere in Windows that could affect this?
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>PS: I will install Windows XP this weekend to try it.