On Sep 30, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Remi Vanicat wrote:

>> I've combed the documentation to try to understand the relationship 
>> between
>> printing and precision (and accuracy!) but have come up empty handed.

A very good source for understanding printing and reading of 
floating-point numbers are these two articles; they appeared in the 
same PLDI '90 proceedings.

G. L. Steele Jr. and J. L. White. How to print floating-point numbers 
accurately. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '90 Conference on 
Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 112--126, White 
Plains, New York, June 1990.

W. D. Clinger, How to read floating point numbers accurately, 
Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGPLAN} '90 Conference on Programming 
Language Design and Implementation, SIGPLAN Notices, pages 92--101, 
White Plains, New York, June 1990.

-- Christian

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