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    Sander Rossel
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    The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

      The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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      You may be correct there.

      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

        The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

        Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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        "This process must be as simple [PAUSE] and correct as possible." With the verb form of "correct" rather than the adjective form. :-D

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          "This process must be as simple [PAUSE] and correct as possible." With the verb form of "correct" rather than the adjective form. :-D

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          What about "and correct if possible"? ;p Or "and correct if you pay extra for our special 'correctness module'" :cool:

          Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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          • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

            What about "and correct if possible"? ;p Or "and correct if you pay extra for our special 'correctness module'" :cool:

            Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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            Exactly. "Fix any detected deficiencies when fiscally sound."

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              Exactly. "Fix any detected deficiencies when fiscally sound."

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              Correctness is a feature, after all ;)

              Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

                Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                Correct to how many decimal places? ;) ;P

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                • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                  Correctness is a feature, after all ;)

                  Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                  Correctness costs money and hinders performance.

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                  • J Jacquers

                    Correct to how many decimal places? ;) ;P

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                    I've actually had a customer who wanted VAT on invoices calculated per product, which was completely irrelevant, instead of over the complete invoice. The problem is, you're going to round VAT to two decimals, because no one ever pays €0.001. So by adding up all the VATs for each product we got rounding errors (and those rounding errors added up!). If you calculated the VAT over the entire invoice (like EVERYBODY in that business does) it wouldn't add up. But for some reason they really wanted to have the VAT per product. We went as far as to round to 16 decimal places, but we still ended up with rounding errors :laugh: Ultimately, we actually went for "as correct as possible with x decimal places." In this case "correct" was of course VAT over the entire invoice because that was the only legal kind of VAT :laugh:

                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                      I've actually had a customer who wanted VAT on invoices calculated per product, which was completely irrelevant, instead of over the complete invoice. The problem is, you're going to round VAT to two decimals, because no one ever pays €0.001. So by adding up all the VATs for each product we got rounding errors (and those rounding errors added up!). If you calculated the VAT over the entire invoice (like EVERYBODY in that business does) it wouldn't add up. But for some reason they really wanted to have the VAT per product. We went as far as to round to 16 decimal places, but we still ended up with rounding errors :laugh: Ultimately, we actually went for "as correct as possible with x decimal places." In this case "correct" was of course VAT over the entire invoice because that was the only legal kind of VAT :laugh:

                      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                      Those little bits can add up :) Here if a product is marked as 4.99 you'll pay 4.95 at the till / cashier, due to us no longer having 2c coins. AFAIK the rounding is only done on the total, but if you wanted to save a few cents you could pay for each product individually.

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                      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                        I've actually had a customer who wanted VAT on invoices calculated per product, which was completely irrelevant, instead of over the complete invoice. The problem is, you're going to round VAT to two decimals, because no one ever pays €0.001. So by adding up all the VATs for each product we got rounding errors (and those rounding errors added up!). If you calculated the VAT over the entire invoice (like EVERYBODY in that business does) it wouldn't add up. But for some reason they really wanted to have the VAT per product. We went as far as to round to 16 decimal places, but we still ended up with rounding errors :laugh: Ultimately, we actually went for "as correct as possible with x decimal places." In this case "correct" was of course VAT over the entire invoice because that was the only legal kind of VAT :laugh:

                        Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                        At least in the UK, it's perfectly fine to do it either way: 17.5 Calculation of VAT on invoices - rounding of amounts[^] Calculating per line makes it easier to deal with invoices where different products attract different VAT rates. And if you calculate and round per line, you sometimes end up paying slightly less VAT. :)


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                        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                          The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

                          Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                          Sander Rossel wrote:

                          If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct

                          That is the most true statement I've ever read.

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                            At least in the UK, it's perfectly fine to do it either way: 17.5 Calculation of VAT on invoices - rounding of amounts[^] Calculating per line makes it easier to deal with invoices where different products attract different VAT rates. And if you calculate and round per line, you sometimes end up paying slightly less VAT. :)


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                            So in practice you could get that new car invoice to be itemised by the atom and because HMRC allows you to round down there would be no VAT to pay :-D

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                            • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                              What about "and correct if possible"? ;p Or "and correct if you pay extra for our special 'correctness module'" :cool:

                              Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                              You're starting to sound like EA Games ... DownLoadableCorrectness, anyone?

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                                So in practice you could get that new car invoice to be itemised by the atom and because HMRC allows you to round down there would be no VAT to pay :-D

                                “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

                                ― Christopher Hitchens

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                                I have a small feeling HMRC may see it slightly differently ... :~

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                                • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                  The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

                                  Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                  Search results I saw on a page recently: About 18 games found :laugh:

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                                  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                    The quotation mentions rebuilding an Excel sheet to some web application. "This process must be as simple and correct as possible." Not "as correct as possible", just correct. If it's any less correct than "correct" it's not correct :laugh: I wonder, if they mention correctness explicitly at this point, does that mean all other points are assumed to be incorrect by default? :~

                                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                    Excel does a lot of magic; read theoldnewthing if you want details that you never need. Fun fact; Excel has better VB than the other MS products.

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                                      So in practice you could get that new car invoice to be itemised by the atom and because HMRC allows you to round down there would be no VAT to pay :-D

                                      “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

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                                      GuyThiebaut wrote:

                                      itemised by the atom

                                      That would be a long invoice. :)

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                                      • J Jacquers

                                        Those little bits can add up :) Here if a product is marked as 4.99 you'll pay 4.95 at the till / cashier, due to us no longer having 2c coins. AFAIK the rounding is only done on the total, but if you wanted to save a few cents you could pay for each product individually.

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                                        Not around here as mathematically correct rounding is applied here. 4,99 and 4,98 will result in 5,00. 4,96 and 4,97 will become 4,95. Unless you pay with your debet/credit card then it remains whatever it is.

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                                          Those little bits can add up :) Here if a product is marked as 4.99 you'll pay 4.95 at the till / cashier, due to us no longer having 2c coins. AFAIK the rounding is only done on the total, but if you wanted to save a few cents you could pay for each product individually.

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                                          Over here, in a store (for example, supermarket), VAT is included in the product price. So 500 gr. (pre-packaged) grapes costs €2.19 incl. VAT. If you buy two packs, you pay €4.38. If you pay cash everything is rounded to 5 cents, so €4.38 would become €4.40, but €4.37 would be €4.35. I can't remember the last time I paid cash at a store :D This particular company sold meat (wholesale), so a customer would order five ribs, but they would pay per kg. The customer gets an estimated price, based on what my customer sent them, then that customer would weigh everything again, and that weight was invoiced. Naturally, you don't know the VAT until the actual invoice. And since the VAT isn't included in the individual prices, like in a supermarket, you really can't do anything other than calculate VAT over the entire invoice :D It's how I invoice too, and pretty much every business in the Netherlands.

                                          Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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