Hi Tore,

It may well be that there's no "solution" in VFP, or even on the Intel platform, but that certainly is not the fault of computers and binary values.

IBM had packed-decimals and one of its benefits was exactly that 'decimals' could be handled as the user wished.

cheers

>Hi Cetin,
>
>There is no sulution as such. The problem is that NO decimal numbers has an accurate binary value, so it's always a matter of rounding. To get accurate calculations with decimals, you must multiply all the numbers by a 10, 100, 1000 or another power of 10, so that you only calculate the integers (whole numbers) which have accurate binary values. Then you must divede the result with the same factor. I am suprised you did not know that?
>
>>A friend of mine asked this to me today. I said yes,0 with confidence and he said OK then go and put that in Excel as a formula.
>>I thought it was an Excel bug but he turned and said it happens in SQL server with float datatype! I couldn't yet see that myself but trust his experience.
>>Any idea and solution?
>>TIA
>>Cetin