On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, bob gailer wrote:
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>> On 10/24/2013 2:09 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>>
>>> Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing envelope
>>> whose zip code was written in scientific notation.
>>>
>> Th
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, bob gailer wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 2:09 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>
>> Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing envelope
>> whose zip code was written in scientific notation.
>>
> That;s odd - since ZIP codes are character, not integer,
>
You'd
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:25 PM, bob gailer wrote:
> That;s odd - since ZIP codes are character, not integer,
It's not that odd. US Zip codes are a sequence of digits. I've
worked with plenty of databases where ZIP codes are held in Numeric
columns. It's not the ideal format for ZIP codes, bec
On 10/24/2013 2:09 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing
envelope whose zip code was written in scientific notation.
That;s odd - since ZIP codes are character, not integer,
--
Bob Gailer
919-636-4239
Chapel Hill NC
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Shelby Martin wrote:
> Thank you for your replies. I suspect the solution is a bit more advanced
> than where I'm at now, which is chapter 2 of a beginner's book.
>
Probably because talking about the gory details would completely derail the
conversation, as I did.
Thank you for your replies. I suspect the solution is a bit more advanced
than where I'm at now, which is chapter 2 of a beginner's book. Not sure
why the author chose to use examples using money calculations when other
calculations that don't need rounding would have sufficed. I will have to
revis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 23/10/13 22:39, Shelby Martin wrote:
>
>> I've looked online but I'm confused - I need to keep it so that the
>> following program limits the output to two decimal places since it deals
>> in currency.
>>
>
> Its generally a bad idea to use f
On 23/10/13 22:39, Shelby Martin wrote:
I've looked online but I'm confused - I need to keep it so that the
following program limits the output to two decimal places since it deals
in currency.
Its generally a bad idea to use floats when dealing with currency since
they can introduce small err
I've looked online but I'm confused - I need to keep it so that the
following program limits the output to two decimal places since it deals in
currency.
How do I incorporate that into my current code below? The textbook I'm
using doesn't describe how to do that. Thanks in advance.
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