<%=1/15%> retuns 6.66666666666667E-02

[.nLL]

yes <%=1/15%> retuns 6.66666666666667E-02

anyone knows why or where i am wrong?

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

yes <%=1/15%> retuns 6.66666666666667E-02

anyone knows why or where i am wrong?

Take a look at this series of blog articles about floating point
arithmetic. It starts here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2005/01/10/350108.aspx

You can find the rest of the series using the link to the chronological
list of posts on the right side of the page.

 

[.nLL]

This is a bit complicated than i expected. is there any function that
will help me to return proper result (like 0.06) from 1/15?

Thank you

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

OK, a simple answer:
No.

The correctly rounded result is 0.07, so if you want the result to be
"0.06", you will need to write complicated code to round the result the
way you want to (why do you want to round down?).

There is no substitute to learning how to properly deal with f-p
arithmetic. This will not be the last time you encounter this.

For a simple answer, try the vbscript FormatNumber function.

 

[.nLL]

thank you formatnumber was the answer i was looking for