calculating a wrong answer

[96172152]

Got poblem don't know how to solve it.
If I enter code ans = 0.9/value
when value is >60 and <80 ans is returned with a value greater than 1. The value should be less than 1.

It such a simple bit of code I can't think why this is.

If I code ans=0.9/70 it returns 1.29571

The correct answer should be 0.01285

Thanks everbody for your help, baja_yu had the answer.

[Rogier]

MAYBE: The answer with 0.9/70 is a HUGE number.
No forget it! It musn't make sence!
Sorry i dont know

[dglienna]

it is displaying Exponential Notation, IE 1.02-E02, which is really .00102. I coded a msgbox and showed .9/70

is this what you mean?

[Rogier]

i don't know........the max. value's of the stabdard vb number is something from -3337.333.........to 3333333 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. So I can't help you........I don't know what the problem is!
Sorry m8 can't help you!

[baja_yu]

It IS exponential..... you might want to try something like:

Text1.Text = Round(0.9 / 70, 4)

[dsheller]

Originally posted by Rogier
i don't know........the max. value's of the stabdard vb number is something from -3337.333.........to 3333333 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. So I can't help you........I don't know what the problem is!
Sorry m8 can't help you!

For future reference, I don't believe there is a standard variable in VB... unless you want to count Variant as that, in which case the limits of it are very large.

[dglienna]

Int range is 32,768 to -32,767
the rest are bigger.

.5 / 50 = .01

so if you divide a small number by a big number, the answer is alway SMALL, not HUGE!