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At 02 MAY 2001 04:29:16AM Barry Stevens wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

Can anyone tell me how I can get the correct result for the following;

x=(5/93000) * 100

y=iconv(X,"MS")

Y S/B 0.005376….

but is

Y= same as X =5.37634408602151E-3

Barry

At 02 MAY 2001 06:52AM Barry Stevens wrote:

I have been playing aroubd and this appears to work, dont know if any gotchas.

X =oconv¹⁾

¹⁾

5/93000) * 100,"MD2PT") Barry </QUOTE>

=== At 02 MAY 2001 10:51PM Barry Stevens wrote: ===

oops , thst didnt work, had to do this:function BSBSOconvMS(Quotant,Divisor)Result=(oconv(Quotant,"MD2") / oconv(Divisor,"MD2")) * 100if index(Result,"E",1) then
OconvMD=MD":Result-1,"B-":"T"
Result=oconv(Result,OconvMD)
endResult=oconv(Result,"MD2PT")return Result

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