Sami This plug from Bill was unsolicited. Do we both get charged $.25 or just me or just him? If just me, I'll have it out of his hide!!
David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:56 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Rounding with Currency > Javier, > > I don't think we discussed data types back then. REAL is the real > problem. There are only 4 bytes used to store a REAL value. Since > 1983, David M. Blocker's seminars have pointed out that with only 6 > significant digits possible, you would have round off errors in the REAL > datatype, even with rather small precision numbers. > > Bill > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:43:56 -0600, Javier Valencia wrote: > > >I always define my variables as currency when using them in > computations. > >The original question was posted by Mike Sinclair and I just > mentioned that > >this issue was discussed 2 or 3 months ago as I remember running > this type > >of calculation through other programs (excel) to compare results. It > was my > >understanding that it had been submitted as a bug. > > > >
