>That's nothing new, but something that you must be aware of. Since decimal 'fractions' can not be directly converted into binary
>numbers, they are converted to binary values following industry standards. That means that ANY calculation including decimals must be considered as being NOT 100% correct. This means that you have to be extra careful. In your example yiu will find that
>? EMPTY(ROUND(x,2))
>Also check SET DECIMALS in help.
>
>>Check this out!
>>Run this:
>>
>>x=199.07
>>x=x - 185.27
>>x = x - 13.80
>>?"---"
>>?x
>>?EMPTY(x)
>>
>>
>>Anyone know why?
If they are Computers, then why can they compute! I always what to say that.
:)
Greg
Greg Reichert