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Emmanuel <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 17 May 2003 17:56:13 +0200
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At 3:20 PM +0100 17/05/03, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>Walter Ian Kaye wrote on Fri, 16 May 2003 14:12:27 -0700:
> >[...]
>>Moral: round any decimal numbers yourself before coercing to double.
>[...]
>Two morals, I think:
>  1) Don't coerce to double.
>  2) Do download aRounderRound from Script Builders. ;-)

I'm afraid the OP was after a moral more about handling long numbers than about rounding  :-)

Emmanuel

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