[freeside] Rounding (or Lack of it) Problem

[Peter Kolbe]

Or maybe I should ask Management to change our R109.00 pricing to R114.00 
(unlikely)
Or maybe I should ask Our Government to change our tax rate to 10,9% 
(Impossible)

there are many ways to skin a [cat|dog|human|hamster] etc.

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Admore Nyamaka" <admore at adept.co.zw>
To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [freeside] Rounding (or Lack of it) Problem


> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 09:23, Peter Kolbe wrote:
>> Nybody got Ideas Yet?
>>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>>         From: Peter Kolbe
>>         To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
>>         Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:50 AM
>>         Subject: [freeside] Rounding (or Lack of it) Problem
>>
>>         Hi,
>>         I have a package that is R109.00 per month
>>         Our Tax Rate is 14%
>>
>>         so I specify the recur as
>>         95.614035087719298245614035087719, which when multiplied by
>>         1,14 (by calculator) = R109.00
>>
>>         but it looks like freeside is using 2 dec places to calculate
>>         total, so I get :
>>
>>          Premium Dial-Up (03/01/05 -
>>         04/01/05)                             R     95.61
>>             V90 Dialup:
>>         xxxxx at venturenet.co.za
>>
>>         VAT 
>> R     13.38
>>                                                                           
>>                                  -----------
>>           Balance
>>         Due 
>> R    108.99
>>
>>
>>         Which is not the 109.00 that it is supposed to be
>>
>>         With previous freeside i had, I hacked in ceil(),
>>         but I want to keep an easy upgrade path, so I do not want to
>>         hack freeside code.
>>
>>         Any Idea on how I sort this one out
> This might be fun to try....
> while($new_version){
> { hack_code_cecil();
> wait($time_to_new_version) ; //Which is long enough for you to rest in
> peace( l mean not hacking).
> }
> //a brighter idea will be to help Ivan code that aspect, and put gizmo
> floating arithmetic there, that way ou may have your name on the
> contributors...(yawn) Time to go..
>
>>
>>         Peter
>>
>>
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