This could be fixed by multiplying the number by 100 so that floating points aren't used at all. (If you know for sure you will never have more than 2 decimals) I'm assuming these are money amounts.
I once saw a similar problem where a locate on a list of appartements for 1 would find appartment 1E0 as a match. (On Universe). --- Raymond DeGennaro II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:35 -0700 2006/03/29, Kevin King wrote: > >Wow, Piers, absolutely true. I just ran on UD6PE > and it fails exactly > >as described. > > I sounds like UniBASIC is doing "proper" floating > point math and the > example has hit one ore more values that are tough > to represent > "exactly". > > >If you concatenate a null to the end, then it > works, > > Because now they're strings. > > >but adding a zero to each side of the IF A = B THEN > does not change > >the outcome. > > Back to floating point "in-exactness" > > >I have no explanation, and it does scare me just a > bit. > > I think folks coming from a C/Pascal background > aren't too suprised. > Back in those days, I regularly re-used a > "floatequal" macro that > just made sure that (a-b) was less than a defined > tolerance value. I > think that's part of the reason for the popularity > of "fixed point" > notation in the days before FPU's became ubiquitous. > > In Grad School, I had one project that suffered so > much from floating > point round off, that I had to switch to an > arbitrary precision math > library. All the math was done in Base256, so it > was easy to just > tack on an extra byte to get an extra "digit" of > precision. Think > School House Rock's "Hey Little Twelve Toes" times > 21-1/3. > > Ray > -- > .=================================================================. > | =-=-=-=-=-=-= Eagle Rock Information Systems Corp > =-=-=-=-=-=-= | > | -=-=-=-=-=-=- web and database business solutions > -=-=-=-=-=-=- | > | <http://www.eriscorp.com> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > |Midwest Regional Office: 815-547-0662 (voice) > 815-547-0353 (Fax)| > .=================================================================. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit > http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
