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September 9, 2000 Trimming Decimal Numbers  Tips: September 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Until IE5.5, formatting numbers was a real challenge. We all used high mathematical functions such as Math.ceil and Math.pow to format numbers the way we wanted to. IE5.5 fixes this problem with three new methods of the Number prototype object:
toFixed(fractionDigits) method formats a number with fractionDigits digits after the decimal place. If, for example,
alert(x.toFixed(3)), you'll get 2.346 in IE5.5
.Learn more about formatting in Internet Explorer 5.5 in Column 59, IE 5.5: Formatting, URIs, and Stack Operations.
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