Hi
ScaledDecimal is not in the Etoy image :-(
Licence issue I think...
I'll use the printShowingDecimalPlaces:
Thank you

Karl

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see two workaround if you know the increment is 0.01
> 1) use a ScaledDecimal rather than a Float with 2 decimal places.
> 2) use printShowingDecimalPlaces: 2 to render the morph
>
> Nicolas
>
> 2011/8/4 karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>:
>  > We have a issue in Etoys where this bites us.
> > We get a huge float instead of a expected zero.
> > http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-946
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:20:41AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'd like to print decimal Floats with at most n significant digits.
> E.g.
> >> >
> >> >       123456 roundToSignificantDigits: 3
> >> >       => 123000
> >> >       0.00123456 roundToSignificantDigits: 3
> >> >       => 0.00123
> >> >
> >> > Would this generally be useful? If so, what would a good selector be?
> >> > And what a good implementation? Instead of rounding I'd be happy to
> just get
> >> > a String.
> >>
> >> IMO, if it isn't considered useful, then it *should* be ;) Having grown
> >> up with slide rules, I'm always annoyed by display of numbers with more
> >> precision than is physically possible or computationally meaningful.
> >> So +1 from me.
> >>
> >> Answering a String seems good, because the typical use case would
> >> be to display a number to some number of significant digits, but
> >> not to change the value of the number itself.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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