Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/gen
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 12/26/2003 12:09:22
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> > Log Message:
> > Don't ever add a ".0" to a single digit number.
>
> Why is .0 wrong when .1 would be okay? I can see not wanting to do 1.0
> bytes (where it would be silly), but if a decimal makes sense in some
> contexts, why not in others? Shouldn't we just be following normal
> scientific significant digits rules?
>
> well, considering this is about _humanising_ a number...
> i don't think that we do that at all.
Perhaps I'm not human, but I find randomly shifting numbers of
significant digits confusing...
Perry