Is your table field a Float or Numeric field? Floats lose precision because
of the way they are stored (has nothing to do with TFloatField in Delphi)
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Eion McIntosh (CHCH)
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 1999 11:24
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Adding of database fields
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> The database fields are numeric with 8 digits and 2 decimals. The show
> as TFloatfields against the database. The variable I am using in the
> procedure to add up to detail values is real so I am confused on why
> this might be. I have tried various ways to get around it such as using
> extended, converting the fields to strings and back again and still they
> show that the two numbers are different.
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