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Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results

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Peter Nilsson <airia@acay.com.au> writes:
> Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org> wrote:
>> ... Floating-point numbers are represented in
>> binary, not decimal.
>
> Perhaps you where guessing the OP's implementation, but the
> C language does not require that.

You're right.

I don't *think* there are any existing C implementations that use
anything other than binary (or base 16, but that still represents the
significand in binary).  IBM has decimal floating-point on some of its
systems, but not for the predefined types.

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Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "Dirk T. Shelley" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-06-07 21:10 +0000
  Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-07 14:25 -0700
    Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Peter Nilsson <airia@acay.com.au> - 2011-06-07 20:13 -0700
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-07 20:27 -0700
    Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "Dirk T. Shelley" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-06-08 16:34 +0000
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-09 07:53 +1200
        Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "Dirk T. Shelley" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-06-08 20:46 +0000
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-06-08 22:40 +0100
        Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-06-09 11:03 +0100
          Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-06-09 08:06 -0400
            Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-06-09 16:57 +0100
          Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-06-09 14:13 +0200
          Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-09 09:26 -0700
            Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-06-09 19:07 +0100
              Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-09 11:52 -0700
                Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-06-09 20:30 +0100
            Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-06-13 12:21 +0200
            Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-06-13 22:31 +0200
          Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-06-10 10:58 +0200
            Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-06-10 22:49 +0000
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-08 21:51 -0400
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Mark Bluemel <mark_bluemel@pobox.com> - 2011-06-09 08:50 +0100
  Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results gordonb.9ycz5@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-06-07 18:13 -0500
  Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-07 20:47 -0400
    Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-07 20:08 -0700
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-07 23:38 -0400
    Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-07 23:49 -0400
      Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 00:54 -0500
  Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-06-07 20:38 -0700
    Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-07 20:30 -0700
  Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2011-06-08 20:54 +0000
    Re: Converting Floats to Strings yields erratic results Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-08 21:56 -0400

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