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bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
Subject: |
bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:05:28 -0500 |
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Hi emacs,
There seems to be a few issues in the docstring of `format':
> %g means print a number in exponential notation
> or decimal-point notation, whichever uses fewer characters.
This seems wrong:
(format "%g" 3.0) ⇒ "3", but
(format "%f" 3.0) ⇒ "3.000000", and
(format "%e" 3.0) ⇒ "3.000000e+00", so %g is neither %f nor %e.
> The # flag means to use an alternate display form [...]
> for %e, %f, and %g, it causes a decimal point to be included even if
> the precision is zero.
This seems incomplete:
(format "%#.5g" 3) ⇒ "3.0000", while
(format "%.5g" 3) ⇒ "3", so # doesn't just cause changes when the precision
is 0.
> For %e, %f, and %g sequences, the number after the "." in the
> precision specifier says how many decimal places to show
This seems wrong, too:
(format "%.5g" 3.0) ⇒ "3", not "3.00000"
(format "%.5g" 3.1) ⇒ "3.1", not "3.10000"
Similar problems seem to exist in the actual documentation. On a related note,
is there a way to get a shortest representation of a number? Something like %g,
but without exponents.
Thanks!
Clément.
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- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately,
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- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/28
- bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/01/28