What's the term I'm looking for

airbornflght

Ok, I usually know this but I am having a major brain fart or something because it has escaped me.

ok, if I wanted to take a double value x, say is 12.3425545 and I want to output it out to the 2nd decimal place. I know that I can either do output formating, but can't I also just reassign it all cut off like 12.34 so that is all there is.

What is that called?

primesuspect

truncating?

shwaip

either that or quantizing.

I'd say leave it as 12.34532459233253 in memory and just format the output. If you do later calculations with the number, it'll be more accurate if you just leave as much precision in memory as possible.

airbornflght

I did formatting, but yes, truncating is what I was looking for. It was just driving me crazy because I couldn't think of the word.

I am modding the AP CS MBCS a lot. Well, my class is only at chapter 3 and I am just doing everything to it that I think it needs. I'm working on making the fish's offspring mutate randomly. A lot of what I've added is debugging information.

nonstop301

"round it up" is the layman's term

shwaip

rounding up tends to mean to the next highest integer.

nonstop301

I was thinking in terms of "rounding up to two decimal places"

shwaip

bah. quantization sounds way cooler.

csimon

ah yes "rounding down" is what came to mind first.