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Re:Formatting floating point numbers by klodolph on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:26PM (#20184250)
Would you like 1e-100 to print as

  1.00000000000000001999189980260288361964776078853415942018260300593659569925554346761767628861329298958274607481091185079852827053974965402226843604196126360835628314127871794272492894246908066589163059300043457860230145025079449986855914338755579873208034769049845635890960693359375e-100?
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Re:Formatting floating point numbers by FabHK on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:19PM (#20185315)
Nice example! Makes sense that it can get quite long, though it was not present in my mind. But, hey, that's what the number represented actually is.

As I said, make it optional...

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