Re: eval divide and drop decimals.

[Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Booth -

> I need to charge a fee of $4.00 per $500, or fraction thereof.
>
> So, if the Amount is $650.22 then the fee will be $8.00.  All these
> fields are currency, so they are 2 decimals.
>
> C eval   fee = $4.00 * ( 1 + ($650 / $500))
> gives the result I want, excepting that $650/$500 is not 1.00
>
> I want to drop the decimals but don't know how to do it without an
> intermediate work field.
>
> Any ideas?  (Half adjust won't do it either for a couple of reasons.)

Geez, all this discussion for such a simple formula.

fee = 4 * %div( amount + 499.99 : 500 )

Ken
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