Does it make any difference if you set decimals to 8 BEFORE you declare your TYPED variables?
Does it make any difference if you DON'T TYPE your variables?
>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.