Sorry Agnes,
I do not want to take it with you, but I would not want that the VFPT created some alibi.
Can MSSQL and .NET calculate 0.1 exactly ? yes.
I would prefer that it it could make also VFP.

Fabio

>Fabio,
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>I have argued about that with you before and AFAIK there is no change. So we do not do this twice.
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>The problem is not how something is stored but how it is calulated.
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>Agnes
>>>Alessio,
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>>>You can not trust a computer in computing. Thats normal. This was the very first I ever learned about computing. It needs always a human brain to make sense out of it.
>>>The simplest reason is translating a decimal fraction into a binary one is imposiible, so a simple 0.1 is not that easy because a binary fraction as divided by 2 and 0.1 is 1/(2*5). This wil end up in 0b0.0001011111111111111111.....
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>>Agnes.
>>1. With binary you can traslate any decimal fraction ( it is very simple to define a format with two binary integers ).
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>>2. On VFP you can use $0.1, it is write with binary sequence, and it is translated exactly.
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>>Have VFP decimals ? No! Simple.
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>>The not obvious thing is that, because VFP is not a scientific environment,
>>a developer expects that there are sure the decimals and optionals the double.