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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: more 2.0 probs - number precision, file operations
Message-ID: <2786@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 15:12:21 GMT
References: <009406E0.A248D460@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Organization: Iron City, USA
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In article <009406E0.A248D460@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU> rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin Goldstone) writes:
|1) I have a card that represents an "invoice".  The user fills in some 
|stuff and my script calculates the total invoice amount (i.e. adds up item 
|prices * quantities and calculates sales tax and total invoice amount). 
|All of a sudden the user noticed that sales tax was not being computed 
|correctly.  Our sales tax is 6.025%.  In my stack, I have:
|  put .0625 into taxRate
|When I debug the script, the variable watcher shows that taxRate 
|contains .06.  Has something changed regarding default number precision?  
|Where are my other two significant digits?!  Do I have to somehow tell HC 
|what precision I want?

Do you have a "set numberformat to 0.00" statement in there somewhere?

chaz

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