RE: [PHP] Move Decimal Point

2002-12-11 Thread John W. Holmes
I have a question. How would you move the decimal left or right, depending on if the number a user enters is negative or not, and then move it that many spaces? If needed, it would add zeros. Hmm. Trying to remember what grade I learned this in. You multiply by 10 to move it right, divide by 10

Re: [PHP] Move Decimal Point

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Wesley
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Stephen wrote: I have a question. How would you move the decimal left or right, depending on if the number a user enters is negative or not, and then move it that many spaces? If needed, it would add zeros. Math ... multiply divide ... I assume you're using a base-10

Re: [PHP] Move Decimal Point

2002-12-11 Thread Stephen
I have a question. How would you move the decimal left or right, depending on if the number a user enters is negative or not, and then move it that many spaces? If needed, it would add zeros. Hmm. Trying to remember what grade I learned this in. You multiply by 10 to move it right, divide

Re: [PHP] Move Decimal Point

2002-12-11 Thread Hugh Bothwell
Chris Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Stephen wrote: One other question. How would I find the first 0 of a repeating zero. Like 204,000. How would you find the 0 in the 4th column. For your repeating zeors

Re: [PHP] Move Decimal Point

2002-12-11 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I have a question. How would you move the decimal left or right, depending on if the number a user enters is negative or not, and then move it that many spaces? If needed, it would add zeros. Hmm. Trying to remember what grade I learned this in. You multiply by 10 to move it right,

Re: [PHP] Move Decimal Point

2002-12-11 Thread Stephen
{ $exp++; $i = 1; } } while($i = 1); $output = $num . * 10sup.$exp./sup; Please help! - Original Message - From: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: PHP List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Move

Re: [PHP] Move Decimal Point...Again

2002-12-11 Thread Stephen
Side note...the formatting for my email program went all weird. The numbers I'm getting as error are as follows: 4.6E-009 * 10^6 1.7E-006 ^ indicates that the next number is an exponent... The real error does not show the ^ sign. - Original Message - From: Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: