Re: [racket] Decimal rounding problem

Thank you to everyone who weighed in on the topic; the discussion has been very informative and interesting. I've decided to not do the rounding in Racket, but to store all of the digits in the database. The rounding will occur at the time of display by either Crystal Reports or Excel, which is

[racket] Decimal rounding problem

I am trying to report GPA calculation results to 2 decimal places, so I thought real->decimal-string would do the trick. However, the following behavior surprised me: > (real->decimal-string 3.225 2) "3.23" > (real->decimal-string 4.225 2) "4.22" I would like the second answer to be "4.23", whi

Re: [racket] Losing decimal in SQL Server query result

se I do to help you with your testing. -Greg -Original Message- From: Ryan Culpepper [mailto:r...@cs.utah.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:05 PM To: Greg Graham Cc: users@racket-lang.org Subject: Re: [racket] Losing decimal in SQL Server query result ODBC claims to only support

[racket] Losing decimal in SQL Server query result

Hello everyone, I attempting to use the Racket db interface to access a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The field "creditaward" is defined as numeric(19,7), and in the case of the following query, I should get a value of 1.25 rather than 1. Anyone have an idea how I get to the fractional pa

Re: [racket] Considering taking the plunge

Thanks to everyone for all of the encouragement and tips. I'll go for it and let you know how it goes. -Greg Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Considering taking the plunge

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Re: [racket] Delete Second

Ashley, I think you're making this more difficult than it needs to be. -Greg -Original Message- From: users-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:users-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Fowler Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 2:46 PM To: David Van Horn Cc: users@racket-lang.org Subj

[racket] Template Variables

I am working the HtDP, and I have a question about Beginning Student Language description on http://docs.racket-lang.org/htdp-langs/beginner.html . Section 1.2 describes "Template Variables", which are a series of dots. Wh