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Form num width precision
(Form aword width)

the first form outputs a word containing a printable representation of "num", possibly preceded by spaces (and therefore not a number for purposes of performing arithmetic operations), with at least "width" characters, including exactly "precision" digits after the decimal point. (If "precision" is 0 then there will be no decimal point in the output.)

As a debugging feature, (FORM num -1 format) will print the floating point "num" according to the C printf "format", to allow 

to hex :num
	op form :num -1 "|%08X %08X|
end

to allow finding out the exact result of floating point operations. The precise format needed may be machine-dependent.

The second form outputs a new word containing the truncated aword with as many spaces appended to it to make it have width number of characters.

Examples: 

Form pi 16 14		;3.14159265358979  ;-)
Form exp 1 10 8		;2.71828183  ;-)
(print (Form [Hallo World!] 20) [...and some more])	
;Hallo World!         ...and some more

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