declaring variables...

[noobee]

hi all...

I have the following figures in my program

345.234
789.123
-345.892
-123.456

what do I declare them as?? long? integer? short? decimal?

Gary

 

[Scott M.]

Because you have decimals in all those numbers, none of the integer types
(short, integer, long) would preserve the decimal, so "decimal" is the way
to go.

 

[Tian Min Huang]

Hello Gary,

Thanks for your post. I agree with Scott that you should declare it as
nonintegral types. Please refer to the following MSDN article for detailed
information:

Nonintegral Types
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcn7/html/
vbconnonintegraltypes.asp

Hope this helps.

Regards,

HuangTM
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MCSE/MCSD

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I have the following figures in my program

345.234
789.123
-345.892
-123.456

what do I declare them as?? long? integer? short? decimal?

It depends on what is important when doing calculations with the
number. 'Decimal' is good if you want to avoid floating point errors,
if the result doesn't need to be very precise, then you can use a
Double... It's hard to give a general advice.