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[Peter Dalgaard]

"Bernard L. Dillard" <bld at math.umd.edu> writes:

> Hello Rers:
> 
> Let's say I have a column that looks like this:
> 
> Column
> 167.8
> 292.8
> 363.3
> 1.9
> 115.25
> 
> I want to manipulate the above data such that I only end up with this same
> column but only with its decimals and not its whole numbers.  So the new
> column would look like this (but the real column is VERY long):
> 
> Column
> .8
> .8
> .3
> .9
> .25
> 
> Any suggestions about how I could do this?

Column - floor(Column)

or even

Column %% 1

negative numbers may get you in some trouble, though.

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