Ronnie
On Thursday, March 19, 1998 7:20 PM, Dale E. Reed Jr.
[SMTP:daler@iea-software.com] wrote:
> Ronnie D. Franklin wrote:
> >
> > We tell the customer that they are getting a 10% or 20% off each months
> > price.. so Dale's way works for me with one small flaw... I setup my
ISP
> > business before I started using Emerald... so we setup three plans..
> > $19.95, $17.95, and $15.95.. being montly, 6 months, 12 months...
However
> > $17.95 is actually is 10.0250627% off.. and with rounding a 10% off
gives
> > them $17.96 per month... same type of problem with yearly.. Instead of
> > using the Discount for a period of time we have had to setup 3
different
> > "pay plans"..
>
> I've worked with accounts to change thier discount field to a real type,
> giving them the ability to specify up to four decimals. The real issue
> is that after four decimals, its irrelevant how much further you carry
> the number, since cents only cotains two decimals. :)
>
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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