>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <[email protected]> writes:

    Camm> Greetings!
    Camm> "Stewart W. Wilson" <[email protected]> writes:

    >> The fix does not seem to be exactly trivial.  Please see the attached
    >> paper by Steele and White from 1990.
    >> 

    Camm> Thanks so much for this reference!

    Camm> Unfortunately, using up to forty 32bit words in bignum arithmetic to
    Camm> print out floats looks prohibitively expensive, although the algorithm
    Camm> does appear to work nicely, at least when coded in lisp.  

FWIW, cmucl has a lisp implementation of Dybvig's float printer.
Perhaps that will work for you?

Ray


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