On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:00:15 -0400 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> > About 0.30000000000000004 and about 0.16999999999999993...
> > I am thinking, who really needs a 17 decimal digits long significand?
> 
> It's as long as it needs to be.

Some people would argue that 4 significant figures are enough.
And you know, they have a point! :-)

https://germanna.edu/sites/default/files/2022-03/Significant%20Figure%20Rules.pdf

> > About --help...
> > I found out what most of the functions are, and I realize that mentioning
> > them in the --help text would be impossible -- the list is HUGE. So, maybe
> > a simple URL there?
> 
> A URL to what?

A URL to a web page. Something like this one...
(NOTE: I am NOT saying *this one*, I am just giving an example of a web page.)

https://sourceware.org/newlib/libm.html


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