Date:         Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:48:57 +0200
Reply-To:     Jens Floeter <jfloeter@uni-hamburg.de>
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From:         Jens Floeter <jfloeter@uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:      MOD results
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Hi all,


when I code in SPSS 10.07 (Win2000):


DATA LIST LIST /date1. 
BEGIN DATA 
55,830
END DATA. 
LIST. 
COMPUTE day1=MOD(date1,1). 
EXECUTE.

The result is

day1 =  0,82999999999998


1) Why is it not 0,83 as it should..?
2) How do I get the correct result ?




Cheers !

jens