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From: gandalf@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: PRINTNUM
Message-ID: <891@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 00:44:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 00:44:40 1987
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Reply-To: gandalf@russell.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Sorry, I reckon you will get a zillion of responses. I assume, you did that
example last night (morning) after 24 hours work.

Of course, you get 
	(PRINTNUM '(FLOAT 7 2 () () 1) 27.689)
	==> 30.0027.689
Try	(PROGN (PRINTNUM '(FLOAT 7 2 () () 1) 27.689)
	       (TERPRI))
You will get
	==> 30.00
	NIL
The 27.689 are just the result of your function call (it is supposed to
return a value. The value is your number.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
--Juergen Wagner (gandalf@Russell.Stanford.edu)