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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 09:30:59PM +0400, Vladimir Uryvaev wrote:
> May be I'm not human, but for me as being scientist and engineer it sound 
> weird to truncate significant digits.
> 1, 1.0, 1.00 are different for me, as they carry different precision. So I'm all 
> for %*f and to keep all significant digits, whatever they are, zeroes, or not.

If we're talking about storage I'd says omitting zero is better. On the screen or on a report, you need to show the 'right' amount of zeroes.

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