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From: mike@papert.sa.co.umist.ac.uk (Mike Reddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Number formating in Hypercard Stacks - fixed number of decimal places
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Date: 16 Jan 91 18:35:26 GMT
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One of my users has asked me this question regarding Hypercard v1.2.2 and
printing out numbers with fixed numbers of decimals.

Is it possible to format numbers with a specific number of decimal places,
such as in Excel (e.g. Dollars and cents : $5 = $5.00 etc). This might involve
adding zeros on to the end of numbers, unless there is a command in Hypertalk.

Are fixed decimals a feature of Hypercard v2 (when it appears...)?

Yours in advance,

Mike Reddy
-- 
Mike Reddy, inventor of the famous recursive footnote[1]
mike@umist.computation.suna / m.reddy@umist

[1] Famous Recursive Footnote (See Footnote [1]).