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Re: trouble with divide?

On 12/8/2011 1:57 PM, James Horn wrote:
I am changing some old code and there seems to be a difference in how the
divide statement works.

if I compile this and debug it, on my box, each time the field ratio is
calculated it is 1.40 until the last statement where the ratio becomes
1.00

this seems to be the offending statement
RATIO = (LSTQTR - (YEAR /4)) / (YEAR /4) ;

Does it do this on your box? If yes, is this the way it is suppossed to
be? Is there something with my brackets I don't understand?


I don't have time to try this, but I ran into a very similar problem. It has to do with decimal positions. Look in your compile listing, you should see a warning of some kind. I believe I got around it by putting *RESDECPOS in my header options.

Joe

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