Re: external floating-point representations

2017-04-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible wrote: - Some schemers even thought it was worthwhile to write a paper about their implementation of this specification. [3]. Yes, Gnulib addresses this problem in the ftoastr module, using a simpler but presumably less-efficient approach. As it happens, an improved algorithm wa

Re: external floating-point representations

2017-04-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paul, > Perhaps this is because I am a fan of shorter, more-intuitive numbers. You can > blame me for the fact that in Emacs the double-precision floating-point number > closest to 0.1 displays as "0.1" rather than as the more-precise but uglier > "0.10001". Likewise, in Lisp cultu