On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:31 -0700, William Scott Jordan wrote: > Hey all! > > This is really more of a tcl question, but I'm hoping that someone on > the list might have an explanation. Why does [format %.2f 18.005] round > down to "18.00" and [format %.2f 1.415] round up to "1.42"? Any > guesses? Am I missing something obvious here? >
Hello William, As far as I can see, it's just doing the correct math. By convention, when you round: 1.00 = 1.0 1.01 = 1.0 1.02 = 1.0 1.03 = 1.0 1.04 = 1.0 1.05 = 1.1 1.06 = 1.1 1.07 = 1.1 1.08 = 1.1 1.09 = 1.1 and so on. This way you get .0 for 5 numbers, .1 for the other numbers, and then the distribution is uniform. And that's not tcl-only , but they way they teached me to round numbers in school ;-P If you simply want to discard the decimal numbers... you'd try a method different than format's :-) Regards, Juan José - Juan José del Río | Comercio online / e-commerce (+34) 616 512 340 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simple Option S.L. Tel: (+34) 951 930 122 Fax: (+34) 951 930 122 http://www.simpleoption.com -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
