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Re: %a format in tests-ulc*.c


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: %a format in tests-ulc*.c
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:17:44 -0700
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Bruno Haible wrote:
The algorithm for the second case also applies to the first case, but
no engineer with a sane mind would apply this algorithm to the first case.

Ah, that explains it! I was crazy, because I indeed thought of just that one interpretation, and applied it to both cases.

Perhaps this is because I am a fan of shorter, more-intuitive numbers. You can blame me for the fact that in Emacs the double-precision floating-point number closest to 0.1 displays as "0.1" rather than as the more-precise but uglier "0.10000000000000001".



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