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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: float problem
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in message news:<4519e058.0207090536.55f497f0@posting.google.com>...

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

This is a bizarre and misleading answer. The semantics
of conversion from float to fixed and the semantics for
display of fixed point compilers is precisely defined,
there is no room for "some compilers" to do something
different from other compilers here.

Furthermore, this makes no sense. If you want to format
your float output a certain way, use the parameters provided to Put
for this purpose, there is absolutely
no sense in going through fixed point.