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, Gordon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hi there, I've come accross a situation, where I am subracting amounts
>from each other - it SHOULD come to whole cents, but im getting
>strange results :-
>
>CODE :-
>
>echo "MIN MAX '$min'$max'<BR>\n";
>if($max-$min<0.02){
>echo ($max-$min)."<BR>\n";
>
>
>(Basically i want to know if its less than 2 cents difference)
>
>What I get on the screen is :-
>
>MIN MAX '5864.51'5864.53'
>0.0199999999995
>
>Now - according tomy maths - 5864.51 subtract 5864.53 should be two cents..
>
>not 1.999999995 cents..
Do you know what the Turing Test is? You have just passed! <G>
>Is there a single command at the top of my script to 'round' the
>figures to the nearest two decimal places / cent? (or after each
>calculation ?)
Can't you use
if($max-$min<0.019){ ?
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Pete Clark
Andalucia in Sunny Southern Spain
http://www.hotcosta.com/comm_1.htm
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