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Re: Concerns about clearing disagreements before committing.

 

On 11/27/2011 08:56 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 11/26/2011 03:15 PM, Vladimir Uryvaev wrote:
>> At Saturday 26 of November 2011 23:49:27 from Lorenzo Marcantonio:
>>> 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.
>> In GUI we do not know what precision user mean (or we have to store it), so it 
>> is no useful information.
>>
>> In file precision mean storage precision and is known. Anyway, fixed format is 
>> preferable in machine read data. Note, if you speak about human readability, 
>> not storage efficiency, such precision would be precious information. If you're 
>> about efficiency, you would prefer binary file or BASE64 at least.
>>
>> Also as I noted above %g may switch to exponent format (AFAIR it is not 
>> specified by standard -- when it happen), which could be undesirable.

I hope in the biu-plan.txt we understand that I am only talking about saving to disk, when
I talk about FMT_ENG.

Vladimir you will have different concerns in the UI, and there are some tough design
choices there which will take you to different format strings.

Each context needs to be evaluated separately.  I am not saying anything here about those
other choices, only that I have made the choice to use a certain format string for the
saving to disk.

Dick


> Anyone that thinks that
>
> 1.000000000
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> is better than
>
> 1
>
> is welcome to submit a patch for consideration.
>
> There is no scenario in which %g will produce exponents, given the bounded data that we
> are throwing at it.  The bounded data consists of the 4 billion BIU integers multiplied by
> a few select BFU scaling factors.  One could take my test program and write a for loop,
> redirect the output to a text file, and grep through it looking for exponents.  If I am
> wrong, I will revisit the %.10g decision.
>
> Dick
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