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leonk
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15 years ago

Testing inequality

I have the following code to test if a reading is within +/-25% of the expected value. function testWithinLimits() {    var expectedVal = 200;    var ErrorInPercent = 25;    va...
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leonk
New Contributor
15 years ago


Stripping some of the extra code away gives me this...



function theSame()

{



   var expectedVal = 200;

   var ErrorInPercent = 25;

   var x = expectedVal/1000 *  (100-ErrorInPercent) / 100;

   var y = expectedVal/1000 * ((100-ErrorInPercent)/100);



   ShowMessage((x == y)?"True":"False");   



}



I am getting a False result though believe x and y should be equal if I have my operator precedence correct.