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1.1       root        1: .TH ECVT 3  "19 January 1983"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: ecvt, fcvt, gcvt \- output conversion
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .nf
                      6: .B char *ecvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)
                      7: .B double value;
                      8: .B int ndigit, *decpt, *sign;
                      9: .PP
                     10: .B char *fcvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)
                     11: .B double value;
                     12: .B int ndigit, *decpt, *sign;
                     13: .PP
                     14: .B char *gcvt(value, ndigit, buf)
                     15: .B double value;
                     16: .B char *buf;
                     17: .fi
                     18: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     19: .I Ecvt
                     20: converts the 
                     21: .I value
                     22: to a null-terminated string of
                     23: .I ndigit
                     24: ASCII digits and returns a pointer thereto.
                     25: The position of the decimal point relative to the
                     26: beginning of the string is stored indirectly through
                     27: .IR decpt ""
                     28: (negative means to the left of the returned digits).
                     29: If the sign of the result is negative, the word pointed to by
                     30: .IR sign ""
                     31: is non-zero, otherwise it is zero.  The low-order digit is rounded.
                     32: .PP
                     33: .IR Fcvt " is identical to " "ecvt\fR, except that the correct digit"
                     34: has been rounded for Fortran F-format output of the number
                     35: of digits specified by
                     36: .IR \(*_ndigits .
                     37: .PP
                     38: .I Gcvt
                     39: converts the
                     40: .I value
                     41: to a null-terminated ASCII string in
                     42: .I buf
                     43: and returns a pointer to 
                     44: .I buf.
                     45: It attempts to produce
                     46: .I ndigit
                     47: significant digits in Fortran F format if possible, otherwise E format,
                     48: ready for printing.  Trailing zeros may be suppressed.
                     49: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     50: printf(3)
                     51: .SH BUGS
                     52: The return values point to static data
                     53: whose content is overwritten by each call.

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