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Subject:Re: formatting
Date:Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:01:56 -0500
From:Mark Bannister <markRemove@THISinjection-moldings.com>
Newsgroups:pnews.paradox-development
That sounds vaguely familiar.....  could actually be useful if it you 
knew about it and it was consistent.
Have you tried the difference of:
  usaage * tc.unitcost
vs
  usaage.value * tc.unitcost
?
--
Mark B


On 4/6/2018 11:13 AM, Steven Green wrote:
> I have a field called Useage.. no formatting or rules on the actual 
> field, just a raw Number field that often has up to 4 decimal places
> 
> on a form, I display it "w.2", but I can click on the field and see the 
> actual value, if it's .025 or anything like that.. so far, normal 
> behavior that I expected
> 
> but when I use that field in a calc, it's using the formatted version of 
> the field, not the real field.. in the example above, it showed me .03 
> on the form, of course.. I clicked on it and saw .025.. it did the 
> resultant math with .03.. but I look at the table afterwards, it's .025
> 
> useage * tc.unitcost
> 
> in my example, tc.unitcost is 182.. times .025 is 4.55, times .03 is 
> 5.46.. it's displaying 5.46
> 
> 
> ??!?@@$??
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Steven Green
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