Re: [Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]]

[Frank Kolmann <fkolmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ken Sims at SWS Nevada" <ken.sws@ke9nr.org> wrote:

Not so Ken, design is OK, its the divide operation that caused the
intermediate result to have 20 dec places.
Obviously I needed to do an EVAL(R) but in the end I used the old RPG II
op codes.

> I knew about it, and I don't consider it particularly a problem.
> As long as the intermediate result doesn't exceed 30 digits, there
> isn't a problem.  Where the order of operations is flexible, I have
> always coded to keep the intermediate result as small as possible.
> 
> If your numbers are big enough in themselves to cause problems in
> the intermediate results, then perhaps you need to be using
> floating point numbers.  If the numbers aren't that big, but the
> fields are, then it sounds like a poor design by somebody.
>



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