Simple division operation in SAP sometimes works wrong?

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

here you are a program, which divides 2 numbers:

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PROGRAM divide.

DATA: pack TYPE p DECIMALS 2,
n TYPE f VALUE '1000.5',
m TYPE f VALUE '10'.

pack = n / m.

WRITE pack.
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Result is 100.05 and this is wrong.
Correct result is 100.50

Where is a catch?

Our version is ECC 617

I do not believe that simple division sometimes does not really work in SAP.

Thanks,
Alex

[ChrisSolomon]

Do you have "fixed point arithmatic" checked/selected for your program?

[Sandra_Rossi]

sorry but 1000.5 / 10 gives 100.05, not 100.50 !

[raghug]

Just to double check that Alexander didn't mean the other way around (that SAP is returning 100.50) I just ran his little program in SAP and it did return 100.05 as expected. Pheww - the world is still round!

[Former Member]

False alarm, everything works as expected. Sorry!