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Floating number printing
From: |
Hans Aberg |
Subject: |
Floating number printing |
Date: |
Fri, 17 May 2002 19:17:50 +0200 |
Just in case GMP not already has the feature, I report it here (I got it
from comp.std.c). An idea that comes to my mind is that it might be used if
one describes float as pairs (f, a), where $a$ is a dynamically chosen
accuracy (or precision): Then one would want to know how many digits to
print.
In article <address@hidden>,
address@hidden (Robert Corbett) wrote:
>Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote in message
>news:<address@hidden>...
>> address@hidden (Robert Corbett) writes:
>>
>> > Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote in message
>>news:<address@hidden>...
>> >
>> > > It's too bad that C doesn't have an easy way to print a floating point
>> > > number with the minimal number of digits such that it can be read back
>> > > in without loss of information. Now _that_ would be useful.
>> >
>> > I implemented code that does that.
>>
>> That's nice. Is that code publicly available, or have you written up
>> its ideas? (If it's in the Sun C library somewhere, how do I access
>> it?)
>
>My code is not publicly available, but David Gay's code is. His paper
>is available from
>
>http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/nam.html
>
>It is paper 90/4-10.ps. The paper tells how to get the code.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bob Corbett
Hans Aberg
- Floating number printing,
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