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Re: %.6g format not interpretted correctly
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Eric Blake |
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Re: %.6g format not interpretted correctly |
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Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:04:23 -0600 |
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According to EXT-Germain, Marvin E on 9/24/2009 1:15 PM:
> %.6g format not interpretted correctly
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> This also affects the "print" statement's handling of numbers, since OFMT =
> %.6g.
> Test program compares .6g format to .6f and .6e. It should be the same as one
> of them,
Not a bug. POSIX is explicit that in printf formatting, for .6g, 6
specified the number of significant digits; but for .6f and .6e it
specifies the number of digits after the decimal (which is not necessarily
the number of significant digits).
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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