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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: %a format in tests-ulc*.c |
Date: | Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:17:44 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 |
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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