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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)ecvt.3      6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
        !             2: .\"
        !             3: .TH ECVT 3  "May 15, 1985"
        !             4: .AT 3
        !             5: .SH NAME
        !             6: ecvt, fcvt, gcvt \- output conversion
        !             7: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             8: .nf
        !             9: .B char *ecvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)
        !            10: .B double value;
        !            11: .B int ndigit, *decpt, *sign;
        !            12: .PP
        !            13: .B char *fcvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)
        !            14: .B double value;
        !            15: .B int ndigit, *decpt, *sign;
        !            16: .PP
        !            17: .B char *gcvt(value, ndigit, buf)
        !            18: .B double value;
        !            19: .B char *buf;
        !            20: .fi
        !            21: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            22: .I Ecvt
        !            23: converts the 
        !            24: .I value
        !            25: to a null-terminated string of
        !            26: .I ndigit
        !            27: ASCII digits and returns a pointer thereto.
        !            28: The position of the decimal point relative to the
        !            29: beginning of the string is stored indirectly through
        !            30: .IR decpt ""
        !            31: (negative means to the left of the returned digits).
        !            32: If the sign of the result is negative, the word pointed to by
        !            33: .IR sign ""
        !            34: is non-zero, otherwise it is zero.  The low-order digit is rounded.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: .IR Fcvt " is identical to " "ecvt\fR, except that the correct digit"
        !            37: has been rounded for Fortran F-format output of the number
        !            38: of digits specified by
        !            39: .IR \(*_ndigits .
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: .I Gcvt
        !            42: converts the
        !            43: .I value
        !            44: to a null-terminated ASCII string in
        !            45: .I buf
        !            46: and returns a pointer to 
        !            47: .I buf.
        !            48: It attempts to produce
        !            49: .I ndigit
        !            50: significant digits in Fortran F format if possible, otherwise E format,
        !            51: ready for printing.  Trailing zeros may be suppressed.
        !            52: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            53: printf(3)
        !            54: .SH BUGS
        !            55: The return values point to static data
        !            56: whose content is overwritten by each call.

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