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Date:Mon Aug 2 10:18:39 1995 
Subject:Re: Neatest way to make a ddecimal? 
From:Adrian Howard 
Volume-ID:950805.01 

In article <3vl3te$kp0@susscsc1.rdg.ac.uk>, James Anderson  <jadwa> wrote:
>I am using number_coerce quite a lot these days. Is there a neater
>way of doing a conversion to ddecimal than this:
>
>    uses float_parameters;
>    lconstant ddecimal = pop_most_positive_ddecimal;
>
>    number_coerce(foo, ddecimal) -> bar;

Well, you can save the reference to LIB * FLOAT_PARAMETERS by creating a
ddecimal directly (see the section on FP numbers in REF * ITEMISE).

    number_coerce(foo, 1.0d0)

(of course, if your always after ddecimals you could alter -popdprecision-
appropriately)

Adrian

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