Peter Bex scripsit: > Absolutely; I was wondering how it decides to print 3/4 as 750.0e-3 > considering 7.5e-1 is equally acceptable, as is 0.75 or 75e-2 or any > other exponent prefixed by a suitably scaled number.
Making sure the exponent is always a multiple of 3 provides a representation aligned with the SI prefixes: if you know that 750.0e-3 is a duration, you can immediately see that it's 750 milliseconds. Nobody talks about "7.5 deciseconds". -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan [R]eversing the apostolic precept to be all things to all men, I usually [before Darwin] defended the tenability of the received doctrines, when I had to do with the [evolution]ists; and stood up for the possibility of [evolution] among the orthodox --thereby, no doubt, increasing an already current, but quite undeserved, reputation for needless combativeness. --T. H. Huxley _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
