On 2011-03-04 03:16:50 +0100, Nick Sabalausky said:
I'm no floating-point expert, but I would think that the only way to
get an exact representation would be to output the raw data in hex (or
binary, or octal, etc):
writef("0x%X", cast(ulong)1.2);
That's also an option, certainly. Then I co
"Lars T. Kyllingstad" wrote in message
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> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:35:11 +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
>
>> First question: I just noticed that writefln("%a", 1.2) writes
>> 0x1.3p+0, while writeln(format("%a", 1.2)) (that is, with
>> std.strin
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:35:11 +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> First question: I just noticed that writefln("%a", 1.2) writes
> 0x1.3p+0, while writeln(format("%a", 1.2)) (that is, with
> std.string.format) writes 0x9.8p-3 ... wouldn't it be nice
> to be consistent here? (
First question: I just noticed that writefln("%a", 1.2) writes
0x1.3p+0, while writeln(format("%a", 1.2)) (that is, with
std.string.format) writes 0x9.8p-3 ... wouldn't it be nice
to be consistent here? (The former is what printf in gcc gives.) Or am
I missing a differen
