I am intrigue by the authors name from Greece. Doesn't Polychronis mean Poly "Many' Chronis 'Time'. So this fistname means MANY-TIME. I have never seen that before.
Victor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Luck Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2003 9:18 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Currency rounding difference 6.1A vs 6.5++ I believe that this area was discussed a long time back and fixed. So why compare older results, move up to the later release. At 10:49 AM 8/20/2003 +0300, you wrote: >Albert, > >the full result of (23850 * 0.4261) is 10162.485 > >so I think that 6.5++ is right and 6.1A is wrong. > >Polychronis Kontos >Athens, Greece > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Albert Berry >Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:35 PM >To: RBASE-L Mailing List >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Currency rounding difference 6.1A vs 6.5++ > > >We have run across an interesting anomaly between 6.1A and 6.5++. This has >the unfortunate effect of creating a balance due of $0.01 on a large number >of transactions, because of a computed column that updates $0.01 higher on >reload. We have not done enough testing to ensure that BRND would resolve >the differences in their entirety. We are reverting the system to 6.1A until >we can figure out how to accommodate this calculation. > >6.1A >R>SET VAR vCurr CURRENCY = (23850*0.4261) >R>SHO VAR vCurr >R> 10,162.48 > >6.5++ >R>SET VAR vCurr CURRENCY = (23850*0.4261) >R>SHO VAR vCurr >R> 10,162.49 > >(BRND(23850*0.4261,10,.01)) = 10,162.48 > >-- >Albert Berry >Full Time Consultant to >PSD Solutions >350 West Hubbard, Suite 210 >Chicago, IL 60610 >312-828-9253 Ext. 32 > > >__________________________________________________________________ >McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. >Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial >today! >http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 > >Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! >http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Tony Luck Brisbane Australia
