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Re: [mv] Discount not rounding correctly



******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>     ******

As I recall, the rounding problem is a Perl issue and has been discussed in 
this mailing list.


At 10:29 AM 12/20/1999 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "quzax" 
><quzax@minwell.com>     ******
>
>I have set up & have working a discount system for one of our clients. I
>have two questions about how discounts work.
>
>Problem #1 I have a 10% discount set for each item individually. this works
>fine in the cart & all except when I have more than one of the item the
>price is then off by $.01. I have the following code in my basket.html to
>display the line subtotal (discount price x qty):
>
>[currency]
>      [calc]
>           ([discount-price noformat] * [item-quantity])
>      [/calc]
>[/currency]
>
>This seams to work except that the line total(extension) has $.01 extra.
>This appears to be a rounding problem $8.95 * .1 = .895. Minivend is just
>dropping the third decimal place off instead of rounding up. Is there anyway
>I could make minivend round the price up? Or would this cause additional
>problems?
>
>example:
>QTY        Price      Extension
>2             $8.05      $16.11
>      Item is discounted $0.89
>
>Original price is $8.95
>
>Also I am trying to discount an item based on if the customer is a member of
>the club & they are purchasing 3 of this item. Thus far I have been unable
>to get this to work. I don't have any code for this that has worked even
>remotely. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Brian Kohles  -  Graphic Designer
>m e d i a b a n g !
>brian@mediabang.com
>
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