On 10/10/2011 8:12 AM, Israel, John R. wrote:
> I am coming late to this party, but wanted to throw out a bug that was just
> reported to Rocket. We found that PERCISION was causing a calculation to
> round in some cases and truncate in others. I am not sure where this stands
> because someone else on my team is driving this ticket, but it was pretty
> disturbing that the same calculation worked differently.
>
> John Israel
John,
Here's the essence of an open ticket we've got with Rocket for Universe
10.3.7 on a windows server:
>CT ADE.BP TT
TT
0001 FOR II = 1 TO 18
0002 CRT FMT(II, "2R"): " ": FMT(10^II + 1, "35R,")
0003 NEXT II
0004 STOP
>RUN ADE.BP TT
1 11
2 101
3 1,001
4 10,001
5 100,001
6 1,000,001
7 10,000,001
8 100,000,001
9 1,000,000,001
10 10,000,000,001
11 100,000,000,001
12 1,000,000,000,001
13 10,000,000,000,001
14 100,000,000,000,001
15 1,000,000,000,000,000
16 10,000,000,000,000,000
17 100,000,000,000,000,000
18 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
See anything wrong with the least significant column?
--
allen egerton; [email protected]
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