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<DIV><SPAN class=869084117-07042003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>You're going to have to explain whether you want to truly round numbers
or just display them that way. The Decimal places setting addresses the
display, not the precision.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=869084117-07042003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Charlotte Foust</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Pedro Janssen
[mailto:pedro@plex.nl] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 07, 2003 9:25
AM<BR><B>To:</B> accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AccessD]
roundup - decimal places<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Charles,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>when i type 5,1 i type 5,1 and not
.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How does a computer changes 5,1 into 5,11415899
although i type 5,1.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is the use of decimal places:1, with field
size: single, when the pc makes a lott of decimal places from it. Then this
property better wasn't available when using numbers (not
currency).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a way to roundup the numbers to 1decimal
place without using currency.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pedro Janssen</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=CWortz@tea.state.tx.us href="mailto:CWortz@tea.state.tx.us">Wortz,
Charles</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=accessd@databaseadvisors.com
href="mailto:accessd@databaseadvisors.com">accessd@databaseadvisors.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 07, 2003 5:42
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD] roundup -
decimal places</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=853123615-07042003><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Pedro,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=853123615-07042003><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=853123615-07042003><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Remember, you
are working on a binary computer. Thus decimal numbers must be
approximated as the sum of powers of two. For integer numbers these
approximations are exact representations. For floating point numbers,
these approximations are just that - approximations. None of your
floating point numbers are stored with just one digit to the right of the
decimal point, they are only displayed to you as such.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=853123615-07042003><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=853123615-07042003><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>If you cannot
learn to live with floating point numbers, then convert them to the currency
datatype. The currency datatype will meet many of you computational
needs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT color=#0000ff>Charles Wortz</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT color=#0000ff>Software Development
Division</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT color=#0000ff>Texas
Education Agency</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT color=#0000ff>1701
N. Congress Ave</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
color=#0000ff>Austin, TX 78701-1494</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
color=#0000ff>512-463-9493</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
color=#0000ff>CWortz@tea.state.tx.us</FONT></SPAN> </P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Pedro Janssen
[mailto:pedro@plex.nl] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday 2003 Apr 07
10:30<BR><B>To:</B> AccessD@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[AccessD] roundup - decimal places<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Group,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i have a tableA with 5 fields (field size:
single, decimal places:1)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not all fields have values.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I want the difference from al those field, so i
added a field diff.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I made an update query with the following
sql:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>UPDATE TableA SET TableA.[diff] =
100-Nz([field1],0)-Nz([[field2],0)- etc. etc.;<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The result that i get in field diff gives many
records with more then 1 decimal places.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example: When i have a record which
contains values like 5,1 and 94,9 (all values are typed in this way and are
not calculated) i get as result 0,11176548</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or a record that contains values like 20,5 and
20,5 i get as result 59,997854.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some result do have only one decimal
place.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How is this possible? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TIA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pedro Janssen</FONT></DIV>
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