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From: hinkle@acsu.buffalo.edu (steven j hinkle)
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Subject: Truncating a double float
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   I would like to know if there is a good, "clean" way to truncate
a double float in C to a certain (given) accuracy point. 

   Example : I want to truncate a double to the tenth decimal point.

Anyone got a good idea how I can do this so that my code is portable?

Any help would be appreciated.

Steven Hinkle


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