{"id":4028,"date":"2013-03-13T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/13\/powertip-display-the-value-of-pi-to-three-decimal-places\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-display-the-value-of-pi-to-three-decimal-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-display-the-value-of-pi-to-three-decimal-places\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Display the Value of Pi to Three Decimal Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to display the value of Pi to three decimal places.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I display the value of Pi to three decimal places by using conditional formatting to avoid rounding numbers up or down?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dwhawy9k.aspx#DFormatString\" target=\"_blank\">Fixed-Point (&ldquo;F&rdquo;) Format Specifier<\/a>, and specify the number of desired decimal places. The following technique uses the Windows PowerShell format operator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px\">PS C:\\&gt; &#8220;{0:F3}&#8221; -f [math]::PI<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px\">3.142<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the value of Pi to three decimal places. &nbsp;How can I display the value of Pi to three decimal places by using conditional formatting to avoid rounding numbers up or down? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Fixed-Point (&ldquo;F&rdquo;) Format Specifier, and specify the number of desired decimal places. The following technique uses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the value of Pi to three decimal places. &nbsp;How can I display the value of Pi to three decimal places by using conditional formatting to avoid rounding numbers up or down? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Fixed-Point (&ldquo;F&rdquo;) Format Specifier, and specify the number of desired decimal places. The following technique uses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}