Claus, Fair comment and you're absolutely right that this will avoid the problem. It occurs (I think) because although you can express every integer within the allowable range precisely in binary, you cannot do the same with every fraction of an integer (what's the word I'm looking for ?). So, if you convert all your numbers to integers you'll be Ok.
On the other hand, you do need to be pretty sure of the format of the numbers you're working with, and be fairly sure you've either got all your calculations in one place or you won't want to change the format in future. In this case we weren't sure of either :-) Thanks anyway -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Claus Derlien Sent: 22 September 2004 10:11 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] - Wide Zero I would always use numbers converted to internal format when doing financial calculation. We have never ever experienced this problem, and we do have heavy financial calculations. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
