Re: Question about DIV and MVR

Adam,

I agree it's odd, MVR sounds like it should be whole :-), but it is the remainder when dealing with decimal precision.

This should help. Excuse the badly named fields from my example...

one div two = final = 00.714
00.714 * 84 = 59.976.
60 - 59.976 = 00.024

Crispin.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Glauser" <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Question about DIV and MVR

Crispin Bates wrote:

Adam,

Not sure if that is completely true. Consider the following.

Done s 5 3 inz(60)
Dtwo s 5 3 inz(84)
Dfinal s 5 3
Drem s 5 3
C one div two final
C mvr rem
C eval *inlr=*on

When completed, rem = 00.024

Sorry for the misleading post ... I thought MVR was for remainders. I
knew that DIV did both integer and non-integer division, but does MVR
even mean in the context of non-integer division?

The RPG reference isn't helping me to figure out where .024 comes from
in your example.
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