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Because floating point values are only an approximation of a value. It
is a really bad data type for business applications, because there are
no guarantees that the value you get out will be the same as what you
put in. Floating point values might be useful for some engineering
applications or statistical analysis of some sort, but please, never use
float for financial calculations.
-Eric DeLong
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:52 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: %floar rounding
Does anyone know why the resulting dec value is 38.039099?
D char s 10 inz('38.039100')
D dec s 8 6
/free
dec = %float(char);
*inlr = *on;
/end-free
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