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vnktrrd
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I have also tried putting the subtracted value in a separate subsequent position. Its still the same. Subtraction is not working fine here. Please advise what am I am doing wrong.
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249000024900000000000052730M01
249000049800000000000077630M02
249000074700000000000102530M03
249000099600000000000127430M04
249000124500000000000152330M05
249000149400000000000177230M06
249000174300000000000202130M07
249000199200000000000227030M08
249000224100000000000251930M09
249000249000000000000276830M10
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Bill Woodger
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Yes, on a re-count you are correct. I have a presctiption for new glasses, but I threw it away thinking it was an old receipt from the supermarket...
Your "M" simply indicates you have calculated a negative number. Find the value of M in EBCDIC, the "D" there is the sign, and the number-looking thing is the number. |
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vnktrrd
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Hi,
I still don't why I am negative number. I am subtracting smaller number from greater number. But I am still getting negative values.
Could someone help me ?
Thanks,
Ramana. |
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Arun Raj
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vnktrrd,
Apart from the negative sign, the number itself does not seem to be what you expected. Maybe the actual value presented to the computation was different from what you have shown. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| 278304-249000 which is 29304 |
but the info You posted before shows ---
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a quick and dirty computation shows that
278304 + 249000 ==> 527304
and that
( -278304 ) - 249000 ==> - 527304
which is exactly what You got
( any decent IT practitioner would have noticed that )
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| I am subtracting smaller number from greater number |
Your analysis could not be more wrong ...
subtracting a negative number from a negative number gives a MORE negative number
and a negative number was what You had in some preceding computations
again ... the topic is becoming a waste of time for everybody and it should be locked as I did before |
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