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Gilles commented on TEXT-57:
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Perhaps it is not in the scope of TEXT (which has yet to have a more
operational definition than "something that does not belong to LANG"), but
{{Locale}}, notation and table layout are not first thoughts when defining the
matrix concept and how to use it to solve problems (that is the scope of MATH).
MATH-833 is four and a half years old.
MATH itself does not use number formatting, except to define other formats!
Which proves the validity of proposing that the implementations belong in a
component focused on displaying strings and sequences of strings.
> Formatting numbers
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> Key: TEXT-57
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-57
> Project: Commons Text
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Gilles
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: api, scope
> Fix For: 1.x
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> "Commons Math" contains formatting classes whose purpose are to beautify the
> printout of such objects as "complex number" and "matrix" instances.
> I suggest that such functionality would be a better fit for "Commons Text".
> Rationale is that it is an endeavour unto itself rather than something which
> other components can easily implement themselves, aside from their "core
> business".
> As an example, in "Commons Math", there was an issue in that fixed precision
> was maintained in numbers close to 0, leading to meaningless error messages.
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