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Calculations Error

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2007-10-24 22:47:19
uglyfish25
Registered: Oct 24 2007
Posts: 4

I created a form with calculating fields and when I input numbers with only 2 decimal points into the fields it calculates fractions of numbers that I have not input anywhere.
 
My Simplified Field Notation for TOTAL is
Allocate1 - Allocate2 - Allocate3 - Allocate4
 
When I input the following numbers
 
Allocate1 = 125.77
Allocate2 = 92.50
 
My TOTAL = 32.769999999999996

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-10-25 06:10:40
#1
pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
Inspect the format properties and category of each field to make sure they are set for numbers and for 2 decimal places and the Seperator style is also set to 2 decimal places (223.78)

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2007-10-25 08:46:10
#2
uglyfish25
Registered: Oct 24 2007
Posts: 4
I have done that on all except the TOTAL field. Because when I do it on the TOTAL field and then put Allocate3=32.77, I get an error "The value entered does not match the format of the field." The answer should be 0.00 but instead it is an infinite number. That is why I removed the format so I could see the error but I still cannot figure out how the number is getting the extra decimal places.

All I can figure is that there is some invisible calculation that I am not seeing.

Where are these numbers coming from?
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