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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: float problem
Date: 9 Jul 2002 06:36:44 -0700
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Jan Prazak <janp9@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2002.07.08.21.58.02.911937.7736@gmx.net>...
> I forgot to ask someting: is it posible to change the exponent output to
> a "normal" output? It is possible in Pascal.
> 
> I mean I would rather see
> 
> -0.70000
> 
> instead of
> 
> -7.00000E-01
> 
> or this would be even better: simply -0.7

Some compilers will do that if you convert the floating-point value
into a fixed-point value (eg: Duration), and dispaly that.