>I have a legacy Visual FoxPro 6.0 application where I need to do a simple multiplication where one of the terms have more than 4 significant digits. I have tried the following code, but this has no affect whatsoever:
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> local nLabor as double
> local nCaseMix as double
> local nLaborComponent as double
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> set decimals to 8
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> nLabor = 0.76775
> nCaseMix = 3807.07
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> nLaborComponent = nLabor * nCaseMix
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>At the Visual FoxPro command prompt, nLaborComponent will correctly be computed as 3186.25. When compiled to an executable, 3186.59 is the result (what you would get if nLabor were rounded to 0.7678).
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>Is there a way to address this in native Visual FoxPro? If not I will try to write a simple DLL to handle the basic arithmetic.

How does it result as something over 3100???
I think this is mdot thing. Prefix your variables with m. or choose an empty workspace. Field takes precedence and its rounding.

nLaborComponent = m.nLabor * m.nCaseMix

PS: set decimals have no effect on calculation, only display. Correct result is 2922.8779925.
Cetin