Rounding UP Currency figures?

Question

Hello!!!
I have the following piece of code:
SELECT
LPA_HISTORY.CLAIM_NO,
SUM ((LPA_HISTORY.END_DATE - LPA_HISTORY.START_DATE +1 ) * (LPA_HISTORY.LPA_AMT /7))
FROM LPA_HISTORY
GROUP BY LPA_HISTORY.CLAIM_NO
I use this in Oracle reports and use the format mask $NNN,NN0.00 to round up the final figure.
But the final figure always seems to be a few pence out, i think i need to be rounding up the *(LPA_HISTORY.LPA_AMT /7)* before i multiply it!!!
How would i do this??
Thanks :)

Answer 1

Not sure rounding up will solve your calculation inaccuracies, but anyway...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  with t as (select rownum/10 as rn from dual connect by rownum <= 25)
  2  -- end of test data
  3  select rn, trunc(rn+0.5) as rnd_up
  4* from t
SQL> /
        RN     RND_UP
        .1          0
        .2          0
        .3          0
        .4          0
        .5          1
        .6          1
        .7          1
        .8          1
        .9          1
         1          1
       1.1          1
       1.2          1
       1.3          1
       1.4          1
       1.5          2
       1.6          2
       1.7          2
       1.8          2
       1.9          2
         2          2
       2.1          2
       2.2          2
       2.3          2
       2.4          2
       2.5          3
25 rows selected.
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