<div dir="ltr">Why is it important to you to have a float? Once you've truncated it, you have a rational number, by definition. <br>Are you sure you want to truncate the number, rather than performing the truncation in the presentation layer?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, cdrick <<a href="mailto:cdrick65@gmail.com">cdrick65@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Float has a truncate and round off protocal with metods that truncate<br>
> and round to integer.<br>
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> So it looks you have to do something like<br>
><br>
> (aFloat * (10^desiredDecimals) + 0.5) truncated / (10^desiredDecimals)<br>
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> or without the + 0.5 for truncation.<br>
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</div>close to what I proposed earlier ;-) Just need a conversion to Float<br>
as it returns a fraction.<br>
<br>
so no existing method... Isn't it something common ?<br>
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