'RN'= Rounding Control

Description

Controls when and how rounding will occur. The valid values for 'RN' below are additive:

1	Only applies to LET assignments
2	On any Add, Subtract
4	On any Multiply, Divide, Power, or Modulus
8	On any math function (i.e. SIN( ), COS( ), LOG( ), etc.)
64	On all intermediate values in an expression
128	Before any numeric data is written to file
256	At the end of any expression
512	Before all numeric compares

Default

'RN'=1 (Only applies to LET assignments)

See Also

'NR' No Intermediate Rounding on Division
'RS' Round STR( ), Formatting and Functions

Example

The statement SET_PARAM 'RN'=644 sets the parameter to round on any multiply or divide + with a WRITE directive + on all compares. (The sum of 4+128+512 is 644.)