[Raymond Hettinger]
> ...
> The asymmetric handling of denormals by the atof() and ftoa() functions is
> why you see a difference. A consequence of that asymmetry is the breakdown
> of the expected eval(repr(f))==f invariant:
Just noting that such behavior is a violation of the 754 standard for
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[Smith]
>I just ran into a curious behavior with small floating points, trying to
>find the limits of them on my machine (XP). Does anyone know why the '0.0'
>is showing up for one case below but not for the other? According to my
>tests, the smallest representable float on my machine is much sm
