https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31259
Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> 2011-09-30 10:50:47
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(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Large numbers such as 82,000,000 get rendered as 8.2E+7 by one server and
> > 82000000 by another. The former is wrong and makes parsing numbers in
> > templates
> > (such as {{val}}) impossible. A little investigation indicates that servers
> > named "srv*" render it as 8.2E+7 and servers named "mw*" render it as
> > 82000000.
> > I've been told at the village pump that filing a bug here may help find the
> > root cause and resolve it.
>
> That's interesting.. It's suggesting the new builds are doing it right, but
> potentially old builds/reinstalls aren't.
Hah, really? That would be very weird, you'd think it would've always been
broken then.
(In reply to comment #3)
> Hey,
>
> may I please have the number of the srv* server? *some* of those boxes have
> been upgraded to Lucid, so this is a very important data point.
>
> Because upgrading all of the apaches will not be done at one time (for
> example,
> now), is there any way to make parsing either format possible?
No, we should just fix whatever's outputting scientific notation to no longer
output scientific notation.
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