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[Karl Schmidt <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/26/2011 11:30 AM, Vladimir Uryvaev wrote:
> May be I'm not human, but for me as being scientist and engineer it sound
> weird to truncate significant digits.

Just be glad you don't deal with medical numbers (the number of digits on lab reports don't mean 
anything - and no errors are listed - what a racket).

> 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.

I've seen this dealt with many ways - one way is to display 1.00+ ( a small subscript plus sign)  to 
show it is rounded up.

One could code it up so a hover above the number or a click on the plus brings out the full 
precision.  I think Dick is correct that 10 digits becomes visual noise that is distracting.



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