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Let's imagine something like this:

var num: Float = 0.0f
num = 2.4 * 3.5 / 3.8

num has several decimals, but I want only 2.

In JS I would use num.toFixed(2).

Other answers here suggest to use "%.2f".format(num) or num.format(2). The latter needs a custom extension fun: 

fun Double.format(digits: Int) = java.lang.String.format("%.${digits}f", this)

However, any of these options leads to a compiler error of "unresolved reference". I don't think is a question of imports cause the compiler would suggest it.

Is there an easy way to do this?

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Kotlin standard library for JS doesn't have anything like Double.format yet, but you can implement it easily with aforementioned toFixed function available in javascript:

fun Double.format(digits: Int): String = this.asDynamic().toFixed(digits)
fun Float.format(digits: Int): String = this.asDynamic().toFixed(digits)

This works because Double and Float in Kotlin are represented with Number data type in JS, so you can call toFixed() function on instances of those types.

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  • Nice! That worked, thanks! However you mistake in call `toFixed()`, you have to call `format()`. So in my example would be `num.format(2)`. To be said also that this also convert `Float` to `String`, so better called when have to print it – eloo Mar 15 '17 at 09:29