Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!pyrnj!hhb!istvan
From: istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: _doprint-less ftoa
Keywords: Sisyphus
Message-ID: <299@hhb.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 14:42:52 GMT
Organization: HHB Systems, Mawah, NJ
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In the absence of elegant solutions to the _doprint-less ftoa problem
posed by Marcus J. Ranum, I posted a highly tedious one to alt.sources;
converting the float into two ulongs (one for the whole-number part and
one for the fraction), and breaking each one down to decimal digits.

As Simon & Garfunkel once said about floating point precision:
    "...any way you look at it, you loose."
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        Istvan Mohos
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