Formatting numbers

[Rainer Deyke]

"Daniel Klein" <danielk at aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:7oquetg5hvmt7mijn9jkutemo6e6uotroa at 4ax.com...
> On Tue, 01 May 2001 23:52:56 GMT, matt at mondoinfo.com (Matthew Dixon
Cowles)
> wrote:
> >You need the ".0" or at least the dot in order to force floating-point
> >division.
>
> Thanks Matt. This works fine for some numbers but not all. :-( Try it with
> 123456 to see what I mean.

It is the nature of floating point numbers to be incorrect.


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