[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33104] mat2str returns ugly result (different to Matlab)

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #33104 (project octave):

I'm not sure this was actually a bug at all. Choosing to display 15 or 16
digits is a matter of preference, and the actual precision of a double is in
fact closer to 16 decimal digits. This particular example the binary
representation happens to be closer to 0.7 than to 0.699999999999999, but it's
easy to come up with examples when the number displayed with sixteen digits is
closer to the actual representation than the one displayed with 15, e.g. 0.69

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