On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Charles <mill...@verizon.net> wrote: > I have searched the news groups concerning this and found nothing. > > I am attempting to learn the advance features for tables and could not > understand 29.7 as the result for $at=vmean(@-II..@-I);%.1f. > > I copied the table and formulas into a scratch org file, changed the > floating point to .2f and the result was 25.00, which I believe is correct. > I changed it back to .1f and 25.0 was the result. > > Is the result as given in the manual supposed to demonstrate some concept > that is not evident to me? >
It's a C-style format specifier. Take a look in the following link for a more comprehensive description. <http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/printf/> -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
