From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-01T23:49:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to format a number to always show two decimals?

Hi --

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2005, at 5:41 PM, David A. Black wrote:
>> Aside to Phrogz: is that left over from a game of code golf?? :-)
>
> LOL. No, before I grokked sprintf, I needed the round_to functionality. 
> That's a port of the Number.toFixed algorithm from section 15.7.4.5 of the 
> ECMAScript (ECMA-262) specs:

Interesting pedigree.

It was the semi-colons and the vacuum-packed syntax that made me think
it might be a multi-line split-out of a former golf entry :-)


David

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