Re: [Emerald] calculating termed-discount values

PowerNet ( (no email) )
Thu, 20 May 1999 14:23:17 -0400

Are you saying that there will be an Emerald update that will fix my=
problem?

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On 5/20/99, at 10:40 AM, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:

>Josh Hillman wrote:
>>
>> >My final number calculated by Emerald is $200.04 no matter which way I
>> enter it.
>> If you can use enough decimal places it can work out, but I think Dale=
is
>> saying ver 2.5.285 only uses 2 places.
>
>Emerald 2.5.285 does *NOT* round the decimals, until after the final
>results. The extra 4 cents is coming from it carrying all the decimal
>places. 278 rounded to two decimals *BEFORE* any calculations,
>which ended up loosing 4 cents on this calculation.
>
>> Emerald internally seems to track more decimal places than two (that's a
>> good thing), though I don't know how many. Appararently, the=
calculations
>> used to generate Invoice.Amount are rounding to 2 decimals in the wrong
>> place and that's why Emerald's MBR total is correct and Invoice.Amount=
is
>> not.
>
>This has been corrected and the Display will match the (correct)
>invoice total in the final update.
>
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>Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT
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