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Thanks for the explanation. I can work around this.

Regards, Tom

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
if ( 20425 * .053 ) == 1082.525 then print ("equal") else print ("not 
equal") end
    
Welcome to the floating-point world: 0.053 dos not have an exact
representation. This has nothing to do with Lua. See
	http://lua-users.org/wiki/FloatingPoint
	http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html 

--lhf
  

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