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From: cnas09@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Clipper round() problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.095337.11969@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jun 91 09:53:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: vaxa.1991Jun27.095337.11969
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
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	Can anyone explain the (to me) rather peculiar behaviour of the round()
routine in Clipper 5? If you do something like round(37*1.175, 2) then round()
correctly reports 43.48 but using round(39*1.175, 2) gives 45.82 when it should
have rounded it up to 45.83! 

	Am I missing something here?


Aaron Ferguson
EE Dept
University of Strathclyde