On 2015-02-12, Ian Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Hrvoje Nikšić <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> {:.15g} is supposed to give 15 digits of precision, but with trailing
>> zeros removed.
>
> The doc says with "insignificant" trailing zeros removed, not all
> trailing zeros.
Can somebody explain the difference between "significant" and
"insignificant" tailing zeros to somebody who barely passed his single
numerical methods class? [Though I have, on occasion, had to tinker
with the innards of SW floating point libraries and could fish a
hardcopy of IEEE-754 out of a filing cabinet if needed.]
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