Re: Numeric Vars

[Bill Beckner <Bbeckner@ICC.CC.IL.US>]

Thanks for the suggestion of using an edit mask - the numbers look like you
described!!!!
So, what I did was round the two variables to 2 decimal places, and the
program ran as expected!

Thanks to everyone for all of your helpful suggestions!!!!!

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 -----Original Message-----
From:   the dragon [mailto:ceprn@hotmail.com]
Sent:   Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:37 AM
To:     Bill Beckner
Subject:        Re: Numeric Vars

bill,

because you don't see the entire number, just what the default edit mask
shows.

one of your numbers may be like 12696.840000000000000000001.  It's kind of
like that Pentium bug they had 7 years ago.  What version of sqr are you
using?

Try this....  Convert the numbers to characters, with an identical edit mask

and compare them....

clark 'the dragon' willis
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----Original Message Follows----

Here's a puzzle for all you SQR experts....

I've got these two numeric variables, assigned the same amount, and I
display their values like this:

     SHOW '#New_Posted_amt ' #New_Posted_amt
     SHOW '#Ttl_Proj_Amt2  ' #Ttl_Proj_Amt2

And the following shows in the sqr.log:

     #New_Posted_amt 12696.840000
     #Ttl_Proj_Amt2  12696.840000

When the following comparison is performed:

     if #New_Posted_amt > #Ttl_Proj_Amt2
         do Print-Error-Message
     end-if

I always get an error message!!!  Any ideas?  We're using SQR 4.3.4

Thanks!!!

Why does SQR

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