Anyone got a date math routine?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:53:46PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
[ Ken approves of all my premises, up until... ]
> >Using numeric fields to do rounding requires you to count from the left
> >side of *the entire number*, and worse, to do it at compile time.  When
> >I need to round, I need to do it *from the decimal point rightward*.
> 
> Here's where I don't follow, however.  What problems do you envision in
> using, for example, an (8,.0) field instead of (1,.0) ?

...

Oh.

Never mind.

It's the .0 part that does the rounding.  Not the 1 part.

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