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April 2, 2006 at 6:38 pm
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In general, programming languages store floating-point numbers in approximate form. This means the value that you write to a floating-point variable X may be slightly different to the value that you read from X.
The VBScript function Round() may be what you are looking for. Here is a sample of usage:
field3.text = Round(x, 2)
For more information on the inexactness of floating-point representation in computing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Point#Problems_with_floating-point.
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