Re4: Rounding to a Given Number of Significant Figures Rather Than Decimal Places

What about a minus/plus sign in front of the number? And what if the number is longer than 8 characters, like 1234567890?

I think there are a lot of corner cases lurking around in this problem ... :)

-- Hofmator

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Re: Re4: Rounding to a Given Number of Significant Figures Rather Than Decimal Places by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jan 13, 2003 at 18:30 UTC
Hmmm ... sounds like a job for . . . Requirements-Gathering Person! (Or, Requirements-Revising Person, as the case may be...) ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.	[reply]