On 10/2/07, John Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/2/07, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>   6.3&]
> >> 6.2999999999999998&]
>
> For printing a floating point number, J has simply to round it to a
> fixed number of significant digits. It does not have to consider other
> decimal numbers with the same bit pattern.

That's not what it does in the context of linear display, and I
think for good reason.

In my above example, I did not include any code to enable
linear display.  To reproduce, try:

   9!:3]5
   6.3&]

-- 
Raul
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