real->decimal-string is the bare bones of what I was looking for yes. Mr. Koot's excellent package is exceeding all expectations. Grants explicit Float's displaying with regard to decimals, mantissa and significand.<div> <br></div><div>Thanks all.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Vincent St-Amour <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stamourv@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">stamourv@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does `real->decimal-string' do what you want?<br> <br> Vincent<br> <br> <br> At Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:27:17 -0400,<br> Ray Racine wrote:<br> ><br> > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]<br> > [1.1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]<br> <div><div class="h5">> Unable to locate a means to control the output formatting of<br> > Real/Floats/what-have-you either via current formatting facilities (format<br> > procedure etc) or via some parameter. Is there anything available?<br> ><br> > ;; stipulate in some manner<br> > > (asin 1.0+5.0i)<br> > 0.1938+2.3310i<br> ><br> > vs.<br> ><br> > > (asin 1.0+5.0i)<br> > 0.1937931365549321+2.3309746530493123i<br> </div></div>> [1.2 <text/html; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>]<br> ><br> > [2 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> ____________________<br> > Racket Users list:<br> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>