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August 6, 2000 Number Formatting in Netscape 6 Tips: August 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Netscape 6 support JavaScript 1.5. JavaScript 1.5 adheres to ECMA-262, revision 3. This version is also supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. One of the main features of revision 3 is number formatting. You have two formatting options: fixed and exponential.
For the
This script yields the following alert box:
exponential format, you may provide as a parameter the number of digits after the decimal point in the mantisa. For example, foramtting the number 10.532 with 5 digits may be accomplished by the following script:
The script yields the following alert box:
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