On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
> "The conversion **exactly follows the rules for conversion to > scientific numeric string** except in the case of finite numbers > **where exponential notation is used.**" > Well, then maybe the conversion doesn't exactly follow the rules, in this case. > > The description of to-scientific-string explains exactly when it uses > exponential notation, but it gets slightly technical and I'm not > interested enough, nor do I have the time at the moment, to read the > entire spec. I understand. Emphasise mine, here: (so you don't have to read the entire spec) if the number is non-zero, the converted exponent is adjusted to be a multiple of three (engineering notation) by positioning the decimal point with one, two, or three characters preceding it* (that is, the part before the decimal point will range from 1 through 999); *Perhaps this module could use some improvement. It is already very, very good. Cheers, Xav
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