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In the absence of a C99 or numeric_limits sig
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| I think, the correct solution would be th
Agreed - but what do we do if NOT is_iec559?
Give up? #error "Can only work with IEEE 754!"
Or choose a massive amount of decimal digits? eg 40?
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Sorry about the long post, but that seemed the easiest way.
numeric_limits::digits10 does what it says - the number that are _guaranteed_ to
be correct on output,
but that isn't what one usually wants for all _significant_ on input (and I
suggest again another numeric_limits::significant_digits10
