| From: Richard Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Subject: Re: Math errors, HELP!
| Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:15:45 -0700
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| The code you supplied and put into EXAMPLE 2 below works OK.  EXAMPLE 1
| below shows a similar rounding problem that can occur with the MC format
| function.  The format function with a format of %6.2f rounds 1.3350 to 1.33,
| whereas round(1.3350, 2) returns 1.34.  My summer students discovered this
| last week in homework 1 with similar behavior of MC format function and True
| Basic's PRINT USING instruction.  None of this may have solved your problem,
| so good luck!

Hi Rich,

The clues for what I needed to do were found in your code.  Everyone
is aware of course that rounding, then adding is different than adding
then rounding.  I thought I had that covered but actually I was not
using the rounding function of MC correctly.  As your example shows, 
I needed the 2nd (optional) parameter, the ",2" which tells round to
round to 2 decimal places of precision.    Anyway, bug fixed, and
thank you very much for your suggestions.

Regards,
Sadhu



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