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Subject: Re: SQL Query/Method fields
Author: john roberts
Posted: 2001/08/30 13:28:17
 
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on 8/30/01 1:47 PM, Frank Bitterlich at bitterlich AT gsco D.OT de wrote:

> But if I write
> myVFloatField.SetString("123.45")
> s = myVFloatField.GetString
>
> and s is "123.46", then I don't find that funny. (Although
> "123.45000002563" would be perfectly acceptable, since that's the normal
> floating-point arithmethic problem).

Hi, Frank.

If you can live with the variation in representation then you are OK. I
didn't have a problem with it; however, some of the people I am working with
got very nervous with it. They don't mind what the computer does internally
however they don't want to see it. :)

Best regards,
John Roberts

mailto:jarobe01@athena.louisville.edu
 
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