Zim Invoice

[fandacious]

 

 

 

one of our clients in zim had an issue and sent me a sample invoice....

 

 

 

check the amounts

[AndreZA]

since when do you have to pay Vat to put out?

 

 

[jabbathemutt007]

They must have a bigger problem with decimal database fields than they ever had with Y2K.

[fandacious]

didn't u hear? the goverment wants to legalize knock shops...

[jabbathemutt007]

 

since when do you have to pay Vat to put out?

 

 

Mugabe wants his share of the hookers.

 

[Bikemad]

Joh thats a lot of numbers

 

 

[singletrackmind]

hectic, imagine if that were real dollars

[fandacious]

They must have a bigger problem with decimal database fields than they ever had with Y2K.

 

 

 

 

with modern relational databases we dont have much issue with storing large numbers. However, we run out of real estate on the paper when printing, so we've built a "divisor" into the system. I think currently they hide 9 zeros on all their reports

[jabbathemutt007]

 

They must have a bigger problem with decimal database fields than they ever had with Y2K.

 

 

 

 

with modern relational databases we dont have much issue with storing large numbers. However' date=' we run out of real estate on the paper when printing, so we've built a "divisor" into the system. I think currently they hide 9 zeros on all their reports[/quote']

 

It should'nt be a problem if you define it as a floating point number but many databases have a decimal data type which handles rounding better than floating point does and there you do define the size of the decimal eg decimal(10, 2).

 

 

[Hog_]

Toner is pretty expensive these days....

 

 

[Azonic]

One speech that Bob gave a week or so ago, he said he refuses that Zimbabwe falls back into the hands of the British and their puppets, and that they reverse the progress and growth that his government brought.

 

WTF.

 

The only growth he has brought is the number of zeros behind all currency values.

 

 

[RABUBI]

since when do you have to pay Vat to put out?

Mugabe wants his share of the hookers.

 

VAT stands for "vear and tear" - tax deductable

[fandacious]

hmmm firebird is cooler than expected. Database fields are defined as numeric(8,6), but i have values of "169500000000" in there no problem. Interesting... I will definitely keep an eye on it

[Edition 507]

One of my employees came back from Zim the other day and gave me a ZIM$25 billion note - about R10 or something.

They gonna have to start printing invoices in landscape, portrait won't fit all those zeros. Next will be A3 invoices and cheques

[ewep]

 

hmmm firebird is cooler than expected. Database fields are defined as numeric(8' date='6), but i have values of "169500000000" in there no problem. Interesting... I will definitely keep an eye on it[/quote']

 

Fand, something like this?

FormatFloat('#,000,000,000,000,000,000.00', FieldByName('Cost').AsCurrency);

 

[Fulmenicilus]

hectic' date=' imagine if that were real dollars [/quote']

 

It is real dollars - real Zim dollars!