If the 1.0 is stored as a char/string, you can do this:
sprintf("%0.1f",str2double("1.0")/10)
If the leading zero is not required, you can always trim this away - sprintf does not support this:
sprintf("%.1f",str2double("1.0")/10).extractAfter("0")
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