[Tutor] Asterisk

[Adam Vardy]

Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 9:53:09 PM, you wrote:

>> This formatting statement includes the moderately advanced '*' token. This
>> indicates that a number, provided in the 'arguments' will be substituted for
>> this asterisk. If there are more than one asterisks in a formatting
>> statement, the first number will be used for the first asterisk, the second
>> for the next, and so on.

So then, what you say is 6 is not printed because it has already been
'used up' somehow?  That is, 6 digits of some kind, and 3 fractional
digits. And then you have the number that is left over, which is
actually used for the expression?


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Adam Vardy