Doesn't Banker's rounding sometimes round up and sometimes round down? If Rachel needs to always round down then Set var vTax = (INT(.vTax*100)/100) will always round down to 2 decimal places
Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:58 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: rounding tax amounts down... At 12:18 PM 12/3/2008, Rachael Malberg wrote: well got a canidate question for 'stump the R:cumps'... >so sales tax in this fine state is .065%, I've got a computed currency >column that calculates the amount but a $23 sale results is $1.495 and >rounded to $1.50 but it turns out it needs to be $1.49 anyone got a >solution? Rachael, Try the Banker's Rounding (BRND) function of R:BASE. Using the enhanced option, you may now specify the exact precision of decimal number to be rounded. Syntax: (BRND(arg1,arg2,arg3)) Rounds REAL, DOUBLE, or CURRENCY data to a specific number of decimal places and allows specification of the number of significant digits to return. Arg1 is the value to be rounded. Arg2 is the number of significant digits to return, and arg3 is the precision The precision is specified as a decimal number, for example, .01 rounds to two decimal places. In the following example, the value of vResult is 1234.57. SET VAR vResult = (BRND(1234.5678342,8,.01)) Hope that helps! Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
