> On 2016-Feb-23, at 20:34 , Mengxi Liao <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> For some reason the following two queries return different results
> 
> Where there is only one activity record and price is 3.63 and quantity is 
> 16.19, the following codes return results of different rounding.
> 
> sum("CEIL(`activities`.quantity/60) * 60 / 3600 * `activities`.price").to_s
> 
> "58.81"
> 
> sum("CEIL(`activities`.quantity/60) * 60 / 3600 * `activities`.price * 
> 1").to_s
> 
> "58.806" # this is the correct one
> 
> 
> 
> I have checked the raw sql and both return 58.806.
> 
> 
> 
> I believe this is a bug for the sum method.
> 
0 < 16.19 / 60 ≤ 1

so the ceiling of that should be 1

1 * 60.0 / 3600 * 3.63 == 0.0605

so unless you also have a bug in your CEIL() function, I don't see how the 
problem can be in the sum()

what are you really doing?

-Rob


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