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Clay YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Any way to set the number of significant figures? Nov 5th, 2009, 12:54pm   Hi, I'm trying to display some percentage values, but there are too many significant figures, so they look silly on screen. Is there any way to set the number of significant figures to display for a float when using text()?

Clay YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Any way to set the number of significant figures? Reply #1 - Nov 5th, 2009, 12:59pm   ps...  I'm currently doing the following, but it ain't pretty: Code: text((float)round(1000*(a float like 0.0234845))/10 + "%", x, y)

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Any way to set the number of significant figures? Reply #2 - Nov 5th, 2009, 2:44pm   try http://processing.org/reference/nf_.html to format your number to a string
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