In MIPS Assembly, how do I truncate to two decimal places if I have a floating point value X.YZDEF i

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If I have a value in an "f" register in MIPS, how do I truncate this down to X.YZ from X.YZDEF? Supposedly, you must convert from the float to two ints and display those... How is this done?

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