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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper round() problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.221946.8098@pegasus.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 22:19:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.095337.11969@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Jun27.095337.11969@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cnas09@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>
>	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! 
>
Aaron,

As a followup to my own message... I just tried the two examples you gave on
my copy of Clipper 5.01 and I get the correct answers for both of them.

Are you using the original version of 5.0 ?  That might have something to do
with it.

tom