Thought of that, which is why I tried: $l = 68288455.49 - 67947269.62
which also gave the same result. -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:01 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: RE: Strange total from adding 2 numbers It looks like the negative number is being entered as a string. How are you entering the second Acct_Bal_Raw variable initially? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/23/02 8:47 AM Subject: Strange total from adding 2 numbers Why is the addition of the numbers -67947269.62 and 68288455.49, both with only 2 numbers after the decimal, resulting in 341185.86999996 where there are 8 numbers after the decimal. I would expect the number to simply be 341185.87. How can i avoid this strange behavior? Below are 2 examples, both are shown from the debugger. DB<10> x $funds_type_totals{$funds_type} 0 68288455.49 DB<11> x $Deposit_Acct_Bal_Raw 0 '-67947269.62' DB<12> s 161: $Deposit_Acct_Bal_Raw += $funds_type_totals{$funds_type}; DB<12> x $Deposit_Acct_Bal_Raw 0 341185.86999996 ======= DB<18> $l = 68288455.49 -67947269.62 DB<19> x $l 0 341185.86999999
