From: "Paul Ranson" 

If you're dealing with money then a class named 'Decimal' seems more
appropriate than 'Math'. FWIW.

Paul

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3dcd7c83{at}w3.nls.net...
> Don't ever start a company of your own Rich, you won't make it..
>
> Geo.
>
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:3dcd3f26{at}w3.nls.net...
>    Is your boss smart enough to understand that the computers don't
conform
> to you but that they do what you tell them.  If you have computers that
> ignore what you tell them and instead do what you want, let us know.  That
> would be interesting.
>
>    If you want to round to multiples of a dime and don't like IEEE 754
> rounding rules, write an application that explicitly implements whatever
> algorithm you want.  If you were to use Math.Round you would be wise
enough
> to read the docs, right.  The docs identify the use of IEEE 754 round to
> nearest.  You would recognize that you want something more like adding a
> nickle and using Decimal.Floor.
>
> Rich
>
>   "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3dcd368c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:3dcc632d{at}w3.nls.net...
>   >   And you are rounding these prices to the nearest dime, why?
>
>   because the boss said to round them off to the nearest dime.
>
>   He has this saying, we don't conform to the computers, the computers
> conform
>   to us.
>
>   Geo.
>
>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4