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Re: Display Engineering Notation with SI Prefix

Date	2024-08-30 12:13 +1000
Subject	Re: Display Engineering Notation with SI Prefix
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On 30/08/2024 12:23 am, mhx wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:39:20 +0000, dxf wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> So iForth PRECISION equates to 'decimal places'.
> 
> Yes. I appreciate the mathematical rigor of SET-PRECISION,
> but literally *none* of my academic and engineering friends
> *ever* complained about iForth's evil deviation. Who really
> likes to see
> 
> -1e 0e 0.5e 0e z^ z.  0.0000000000000000612323399573677 + i1.  ok
> 
> 3 set-precision  ok
> -1e 0e 0.5e 0e z^ z.  0.0000000000000000612 + i1.  ok
> 
> in computed output?

Can't say without knowing what was the criteria.  If a user wants
to show the result to 3 significant digits, who can argue with that.
3 significant digits is about right for (ENG.) applications.

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              Re: Display Engineering Notation with SI Prefix dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2024-08-30 18:03 +1000
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