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RE: st: variable format
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
RE: st: variable format
Date
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:39:26 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Thu, 10/3/11, Andreas Drichoutis wrote:
> My concern is the actual value and
> neither the round function works nor
> changing the format to %3.2f .
A binary computer cannot store many such numbers
exactly. What you can do is multiply your variable
by 100 as computers can store integers exactly.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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