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Rounding routine

By any chance, anyone got a rounding routine that does a work around the VB
"round" bug?
I still find it amazing that a company as large as Microsoft would put out a
math package that is so problematic.
Jul 17 '05
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pookemon
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Actually, bad example of the rounding functions:

From my real world example. If I have the value 1015.70, which the total amount for an item on an invoice. That amount has a tax rate of 5.5% - but it has to be fed into a financial system at 10%. So, to do this we multiply the amount by .55, and round it to 2 decimal places giving a value of 558.64. For the remainder (which gets sent Tax free) we multiply by 0.45 and round to 2 decimal places which gives us 457.07 with the Format function - meaning the total of the two values is now 1015.71. If we use the Math.round function then the second amount is 457.06 and the total is correct.
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