New Math

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Jan 11 02:11:01 EST 2003


On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Judy Perry wrote:

> 6/7 = 4286

(6/7)*100 = 85.714286

with the usual value of numberFormat.

Note that they both end in 4286.

Could you be using a short field with right justification?  If that is 
the case, maybe the left part of the answer is pushed out of view.

Try rounding after the calculation or setting numberFormat before 
putting the result into the field.

Dar Scott




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