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A comment on What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991). Parent comment
> C's printf has had the "%a" conversion since forever
That turns out not to be the case. Would you care to guess:
* Which year it was first introduced?
* Which year it became wide-spread?
* When I started programming?
* How old some of the systems are in which I still work?
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> C's printf has had the "%a" conversion since forever
That turns out not to be the case. Would you care to guess:
* Which year it was first introduced?
* Which year it became wide-spread?
* When I started programming?
* How old some of the systems are in which I still work?