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Re: Stringification of FP numbers.by JavaFan (Canon) |
on Jun 12, 2009 at 16:24 UTC ( [id://771016]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Well, people like to see 0.1 instead of 1e-1. But they prefer 1e-50 over 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001. Saves space, and counting digits. Obviously, the more leading zero's the rather people see "scientific" notation.
The happy medium (flip point) was set at 4 leading zeros.
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