Re: %g format in printf

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 04:43

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In article <1442@hiatus.dec.com> daniels@grue.dec.com (Bradford R. Daniels) writes:
>...  It should have been obvious to me from the sentence "... style e
>(or E) will be used only if the exponent ... is less than -4 or greater
than or equal to the precision."

Oops.  This does indeed make the correct answer 1e+3 instead of 1000,
for %g format.  I would cancel my earlier posting on this except this
&^$(^%! news software won't let me!

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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: %g format in printf
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Date: 7 Sep 89 04:43:11 GMT
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