> On Oct 5, 2016, at 2:30 AM, Lars-Jørgen Kristiansen via swift-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> // Also noticed this:
> "\(floatNumber)" // "1e+07"
> "\(doubleNumer)" // "10000000"
Numbers around 10 million are too large to be represented exactly by a 32-bit
float — the mantissa is 24 bits, including sign, so its range is ±8.3 million.
(The specific number 10,000,000 does come out exactly, though, since it’s a
multiple of 128.)
So even if Float.description did use non-scientific notation for numbers at
this scale, they wouldn’t be accurate. In fact the implementor of the
.description method may have decided intentionally to switch to scientific
notation at this scale so that the number of significant figures can be limited
to the available precision.
—Jens
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