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soulid1 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Having float in variable but showin rounded value Nov 23rd, 2009, 12:28am   Hi, I am writing a program showing measured data submitted by arduino. The data submitted are float (e.g. 12,4798), but I want to show 12,5 only via the "text" function. The float shall remain unchanged as I want to record them later in full accuracy. Is there a method to do so?

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Having float in variable but showin rounded value Reply #1 - Nov 23rd, 2009, 1:00am   you can define how a float should be converted to a string using http://processing.org/reference/nf_.html etc...
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