agreed, I think that would be a sensible choice. The key point being, every representable number should have a unique representation.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Henning Thielemann < lemm...@henning-thielemann.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > I'm looking at the scientific package, and I thought to myself "huh, it >> doesn't seem to normalize the >> numbers to scientific notation" >> it has the right semantics for how printing and operations *mean*, but it >> doesn't seem to internally keep >> them as "normalized" floats. >> > > The mantissa is stored as Integer. I think that is the only way to keep > all digits. But with that representation it is certainly not sensible to > normalize to the most significant digit. A reasonable normalization might > be to divide the mantissa by a power of 10 such that the mantissa is not a > multiple of 10. >
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