Dale! How many decimal places will Emerald 2.5.285 use to calculate the=
discount?
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On 5/20/99, at 10:31 AM, Josh Hillman wrote:
>From: PowerNet <psc5@powersupply.net>
>How do I fix the problem?
>That is the million dollar question.
>
>
>I had to do the same thing that you're doing to remove 2.5 cents off of=
the
>total value to make it a bit more even (that's what I was referring to in=
my
>message before). I wrote down the following, then used a calculator to
>figure out the exact discount amount needed to do the trick. We have two
>primary accounts that are discounted annually and semi-annually (didn't=
have
>to modify that one). One is normally $19.95/month and the other is
>$24.95/month. Our annual discount is that you pay for 9.5 months and get
>2.5 free.
>
>24.95 x 12 =3D 299.40
>19.95 x 12 =3D 239.40
>
>9.5 / 12 =3D 0.79166666666666666666666666666667
>Discount =3D 100 x (1 - 0.791667)
> =3D 20.8333
>
>24.95 x 9.5 =3D 237.025
>19.95 x 9.5 =3D 189.525
>
>Removing 2.5 cents from the two totals above would make the numbers fairly
>nice:
>237.025 --> 237.00
>189.525 --> 189.50
>So I needed to adjust the discount to compensate for the removal of the=
2.5
>cents.
>(disireable discount divided by non-discounted...)
>237.00 / 299.40 =3D 0.79158316633266533066132264529058
>189.50 / 239.40 =3D 0.79156223893065998329156223893066
>
>Notice that the values are not the same, but they're very close. You can=
go
>with one or the other or interpolate between the two to come up with a=
final
>adjusted discount.
>
>Adjusted discount =3D 100 x (1 - 0.791583)
> =3D 20.8417 (20.84168 rounded)
>OR
>Adjusted discount =3D 100 x (1 - 0.791562)
> =3D 20.8438 (20.84377 rounded)
>OR (via interpolation)
>Adjusted discount =3D (20.8437... + 20.8416...) / 2
> =3D 20.8427 (not 20.8428)
>
>20.84 causes an extra penny to be added to both accounttypes after
>calculations, so that value isn't specific enough. I ended up using=
20.8427
>(the interpolated one) and both totals come up perfect:
>237.00
>189.50
>
>Josh
>
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>On 5/19/99, at 3:13 PM, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
>
>>Josh Hillman wrote:
>>>
>>> We've got discounts for annual and semiannual payments for some of our
>>> accounts also, but are not running into the problem you are. Our=
numbers
>>> are coming out perfect (Emerald 2.1.11 was off by about 3 cents).
>>
>>Emerald 2.5.284 and higher corrected a rounding problem that was
>>present in Emerald 2.5.26x through 2.5.283. It would round the
>>values read from the DB to two digits BEFORE the calculations,
>>which cause major accuracy problems.
>>
>>> From what I can tell, Emerald is calculating everything correctly. I'm
>>> using the same version that you are (on my testing machine)...
>>
>>After looking at his numbers, he was relying on the rounding
>>for his numbers to come out correctly (and lower than they
>>should have). Unfortunately, the fix is causing his numbers to
>>have four more cents that he wants.
>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT
>>__________________________________________
>>IEA Software, Inc. www.iea-software.com