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Re: Soliciting comments (and help) with online form
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:41:19 GMT
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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 05:58:10 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
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> Ok, been playing with a javascript form today and I think it's fairly
> nifty. No super-duper backend database or anything, but it does
> fulfill a couple of the requests I've had so far for making selecting
> quantities and items easier.
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> Here's the address of the form:
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> http://www.guarded-inn.com/lego/auction/test3.htm
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> Now, one thing I have noticed, and I don't quite understand it, is
> this situation. When I select this item:
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> Black 1x1 Shallow Cooking Pans w/Handle
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> And a quantity of 3, 7, 17, and some other higher odd numbers, but not
> all of them, the math it does is wrong. 3 x .35 becomes 1.04, 7 x
> .35 becomes 2.44, etc. Any ideas why that is? Or does it work for
> other people?
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> Any comments and suggestions would be most appreciated. I'm going to
> put it away for the night and play with Photoshop - need to pretty
> things up a bit since I'm actually paying for this site. :)
3,7,17 are all prime numbers - maybe that helps.
lessee: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19....
Not any particular order in the way they're picked from that row, I
think. Do you run on P60 w/bug, by any chance?
Or it could just be binary/decimal conversion artifacts.
HTH.
Jasper
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| (...) Thanks for the comments. Todd seems to have solved the problem, although I'm honest enough to admit that the whole thing is beyond me. Oddly enough, when I went back and looked at the old broke version it did bad math on some even numbers as (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| Ok, been playing with a javascript form today and I think it's fairly nifty. No super-duper backend database or anything, but it does fulfill a couple of the requests I've had so far for making selecting quantities and items easier. Here's the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.publish)
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