Re: interest computing problem

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Andrew" <eagletalon@chartermi.net> wrote in message
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> ok after a few hours of sleep.. I got Long_Float to work(aka the program
> compiled), but the input/output that I got is still
>
> How much money do you have-Please add cents? 1000.00
> What is the interest you will receive? .02
> How long will it be invested in weeks? 52
>
>
> Your ending balance will be 1000.20
>
>
> as you can see it now says that the ending balance is 1000.20 which is
> changed from 1000.22 (and the can probably be attributed to the fact
> that I am using Long_Float instead of Float).  but I am still at the
> problem of the answer should be 1020.20 (or the full answer that he came

You input ".02" which you are then dividing by 100 to get a percentage, so
your "bank" is paying 0.0002% - I'd say 20cents is about right at that rate!

Try your same program but enter "2.0" (miss quotation marks) for the
second value and you will get the result "1020.14" - which is a lot
closer...