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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficient way to transform float to string
Message-ID: <14697@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 10 Dec 90 19:47:03 GMT
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In article <49508@cornell.UUCP> hilfingr@cs.cornell.edu (Paul N. Hilfinger) writes:
>Gasch's original program is faster than either of the suggestions ...

But the library routines probably round correctly and properly convert
numbers that are approximately an exact power of 10.