RE: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]

Jim,
I haven't had many surprises using business math.  Here's your example
translated into EVAL:

D                SDS                                      
D  WorkStation          244    253                        
                                                          
D Fix1            s              7  2 inz(12.5)           
D Fix2            s              7  2 inz(1.5)            
D Fix3            s              7  3 inz(.825)           
D Result          s              7  2 inz(0)              
                                                          
C                   Eval(h)   Result = Fix1 * Fix2 * Fix3 
                                                          
C     Result        dsply     WorkStation                 
C                   eval      *InLR = *On                 

Works for me.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
mailto:Buck.Calabro@aptissoftware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 11:37 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]
> 
> If I told my son to multiply 12.50 then times 1.50 then times 0.825 and
> he told me the answer was 1, he would be wrong, because the answer is
> 1.54.  If any compiler I had ever used had given me an answer of 1 it
> would
> of been wrong, and none have.  But, why am I to expect RPG to suddently
> decide the answer is 1, when the rest of the world knows it's not?
> 
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