in reply to Converting -4.84800000E+001 to -48.48 doesn't work... but 48.49 does
Thanks for all your help. I was only vaguely aware of how tricky comparing floats that looked quite round can be. Unfortunately one side of comparison is supplied by humans and the other is coming back from a device and I have no influence on neither, so will have to rely on rounding the machine side to 2f.
Thanks again.