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PaymentCalculator ( Amount ; NumberOfPayments )

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Returns a return-delimited list of payment amounts rounded to the nearest penny. The remainder of the division is evenly distributed a penny at a time among the first payments.

Sample Input:

PaymentCalculator ( 1000 ; 6 )

Sample Output:

166.67¶
166.67¶
166.67¶
166.67¶
166.66¶
166.66¶
¶

// Returns a return-delimited list of payment amounts rounded to the nearest penny. //The remainder of the division is evenly distributed a penny at a time among the first payments. // Maximum of 9999 payments (limited by FileMaker). Let ( ThisPayment = If ( Truncate ( Amount / NumberOfPayments ; 2 ) = Amount / NumberOfPayments ; Amount / NumberOfPayments ; // Else Truncate ( Amount / NumberOfPayments ; 2 ) + .01 ) ; If ( NumberOfPayments = 0 ; "" ; // Else ThisPayment & "¶" & PaymentCalculator ( Amount - ThisPayment ; NumberOfPayments - 1 ) ) )
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Description:

Divides Amount by NumberOfPayments, rounding to .01.

Distributing remainder evenly among the first payments .01 at a time so that all payments are as even as possible.

Contains a trailing "¶". Inputs can be numbers formatted as text or numbers.

Maximum of 9999 payments, at least on my computer which has 512MB of RAM.

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