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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:58:49 EST
- Reply-To: "Mark W. Schumann" <mark@whizbang.wariat.org>
- Sender: "Discussion on the use of the dBase language and related
- dialects" <DBASE-L@NMSUVM1.BITNET>
- From: "Mark W. Schumann" <mark@WHIZBANG.WARIAT.ORG>
- Subject: Re: HELP ! HELP ! Clipper bug ??????!!
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- Rolf van Gelder wrote:
-
- > Dear Clipper Freaks,
- >
- > I stumbled across a most horrible Clipper bug (at least I
- > think it's a bug .....).
-
- That's the infamous "rounding problem." Clipper stores numerics
- in a 32-bit double-precision floating-point format that doesn't
- permit exact rendering of decimals.
-
- Not too much you can do about it other than to deal only in
- whole numbers.
-