----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:33 pm How do you "cut off" a decimal? ----------------------------------- Okay I making a program where I input and output prices and I would like to know how to make the decimal go to only 2 places. I've already tried using the variable as a currency type but it still doesn't work. ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:40 am ----------------------------------- You'll want to look into either rounding, or truncating. ----------------------------------- wtd Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:58 am ----------------------------------- Understand why many languages call functions that do just this kind of thing "ceil" and "floor". ----------------------------------- Monstrosity_ Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:43 pm Re: How do you "cut off" a decimal? ----------------------------------- Okay I making a program where I input and output prices and I would like to know how to make the decimal go to only 2 places. I've already tried using the variable as a currency type but it still doesn't work. The Currency just provides a different method of storage for your numbers, since you wouldn't use floating-point numbers things such as currency. As for the decimal places, look into the FormatCurrency() function. ----------------------------------- cool dude Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:11 pm ----------------------------------- you don't need currency. to round of to 2 decimal places use the format command and inside the brackets the name of the variable you want to round to 2 decimal places and "0.00" Example quotient = 20 / 26 Text1.Text = Format(quotient, "0.00") if you want to round to 3 decimal places you would add an extra 0. and so on. ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:31 pm ----------------------------------- Wow thanks for all the help everyone! ----------------------------------- wtd Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:32 am Re: How do you "cut off" a decimal? ----------------------------------- The Currency just provides a different method of storage for your numbers, since you wouldn't use floating-point numbers things such as currency. Indeed. Never ever use floating point numbers for currency. If you feel tempted to do so, just watch the movie Office Space. ----------------------------------- RGB255 Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:40 pm ----------------------------------- This could come in very hany in my final project. Btw what are floating point numbers? ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:33 am ----------------------------------- Floating point numbers, as basically as you can get, are numbers with decimals, for example: 1.56 0.065 16342.6 You could have found this out from a simple Google/Wikipedia search.