Agreed - but what do we do if NOT is_iec559?
Give up? #error "Can only work with IEEE 754!"
Or choose a massive amount of decimal digits? eg 40?
Why not just use what we're currently doing, use numeric_limits<>::digits10 and hope that it's accurate enough?
Daryle
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