With larger numbers the rounding error can be more significant so it depends on your tolerance for those kinds of differences. Accounting types tend to be picky about that kind of stuff. :-)
One solution I've used in VFP is to change SET DECIMALS to some larger value such as 8 before doing the rounding as this will push the ambiguity further out to the right side of the decimal point. I also found out that using multiplication vs division (i.e. x*.01 vs x/100) can return different results so I started to always use multiplication. -- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurie Alvey Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VAT Rates Is the 4 decimal place accuracy ever a practical problem? Laurie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/DF1EEF11E586A64FB54A97F22A8BD044239C2AC0AE@ACKBWDDQH1.artfact.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
