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Re: Display Engineering Notation with SI Prefix

Date	2024-08-31 11:11 +1000
Subject	Re: Display Engineering Notation with SI Prefix
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On 30/08/2024 7:24 pm, dxf wrote:
> On 30/08/2024 6:26 pm, mhx wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 8:03:26 +0000, dxf wrote:
>>
>>> At the same time I also found
>>> SET-PRECISION to be useful.
>>
>> An example would be instructive.
> 
> Standard capacitor and resistor values are specified in terms
> of significant digits.

Most will use F. for testing and debugging.  In that case I would
prefer an F. based on PRECISION rather than PLACES.  With the latter
the risk of a small f/p number printing as 0.0 is too high and thus
misleading.

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