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  1. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dbase-l
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uvaarpa!murdoch!galen.med.Virginia.EDU!jw2b
  3. From: jw2b@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Sara J. Wagner)
  4. Subject: Re: HELP ! HELP ! Clipper bug ??????!!
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan5.181101.17859@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
  7. Organization: University of Virginia
  8. References: <01GT5ZU1G02A9KM5XN@URC.TUE.NL>
  9. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:11:01 GMT
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  13. There is a known problem with floating point errors in Clipper -- I've
  14. bumped into it before.  Tech Support suggested using val() and str()
  15. to force the math to behave.  Try something like val(str(var3)) ==
  16. (val(str(var1)) + val(str(var2))) and see if that helps.
  17.  
  18. --
  19. Jane Wagner, Computer Systems and Publications Assistant
  20. The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library| INTERNET: jw2b@virginia.edu
  21. Box 234, UVA Health Sciences Center    | PHONE:    804-924-0188
  22. Charlottesville, VA  22908         | BITNET:   jw2b@virginia.bitnet
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