That did the trick, thanks Bill (:
On 7/13/05, Bill Downall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, > > Try adding an attribute of precision="2" to your @CALC tag. > > Bill > > Alan Wolfe wrote: > > Hi Everyone! > > > > I am having a little issue with some math and was hopeing someone > > could help me out. > > > > Here is an example of the problem I'm having, if you run this code: > > > > <@calc expr="3000.00-2907.80"> > > > > it gives an answer of: > > > > 92.1999999999998 > > > > which is pretty close to accurate - im assuming the problem is the > > same problem as when you store floating point numbers in a computer, > > it is only accurate to so many decimal places. > > > > my problem comes in when i do this to display the results as currency: > > > > <@calc expr="3000.00-2907.80" format="num:3-*,\,,2,.,,,-,"> > > > > it gives an answer of: > > > > 92.19 > > > > which is off by one penny. > > > > Anyone know how to make it correctly display 92.20? > > > > Thanks! > > Alan > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
