Re: Limiting Decimal Places in a Floating Variable?
Re: Limiting Decimal Places in a Floating Variable?
- Subject: Re: Limiting Decimal Places in a Floating Variable?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:19:24 -0800
On 11/22/00 5:24 AM, Jonathan Simms <email@hidden> wrote
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I'm trying to come up with a running balance for a list of numbers (like a
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check book).
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The list of numbers are all to 2 decimal places. What's bizarre is that
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applescript does fine (adds to the correct number of places) and then
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returns values like -2134.2399999 for no apparent reason
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The nines don't really bother me, as all of the numbers to the left of the
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nines are correct, I just want to know how to limit the number to 2 decimal
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places.
set x to -2134.2399999
set x to (round (x * 100) rounding toward zero) / 100
-- Michelle
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