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- From: dtodd@titan.ucc.umass.edu (David M. Todd)
- Subject: Re: AREV MULTIVALUE Symbolics
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- Keywords: AREV MULTIVALUE SYMBOLIC
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:26:14 GMT
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- In article <cpetersn.722472899@vincent2.iastate.edu> cpetersn@iastate.edu (Clifton R Peterson) writes:
- >No, It should be MD02. You are right that the last digit is the scale which
- >is the power of 10 to divide the data by before displaying it. I did some
- >testing just after putting this message up and got the following
- >
- >msg(oconv(123456,"MD02")) => 1235
- >msg(oconv(123449,"MD02")) => 1234
- >
- >At least, if I remember right, the problem was displaying DOLLARS type
- >data rounded up to the nearest dollar or using MD0 without having to do
- >the non-rounding divide of the data first.
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- My apologies--you were right. Thanks for the clarification.
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- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David M. Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
- |Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA|
- |Phone: 413/545-0158 ___ <DTodd@Titan.ucc.UMass.EDU> _____ Fax: 413/545-0996|
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