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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using strings to format the display of decimal places in Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! One of the things I have a problem with is when I get numbers that have a lot of decimal places. I mean, how do I really get rid of them—at least properly? I have done things like conv...

Summary: Use parentheses to override operator precedence in Windows PowerShell.  How can I ensure that a math expression that keeps returning incorrect information will work properly in            Windows PowerShell?                &nb...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about working with fixed number sizes in Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that returns a specific type of number, so I added a type constraint on the variable that holds the number. The problem is that sometimes when I run the script, I get errors. I cannot figure this ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about numbers in Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! One of the things that is frustrating to me with Windows PowerShell is the way that it handles numbers. For example, I want to know the percent of processor utilization for something, and it displays a number that is like fifty million ...