Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com
> <mailto:raymond.toy at ericsson.com>> wrote:
>
> Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> > That is not the bad case that was reported (though it is another
> bad case).
>
> Also, should we round the printed result?
>
> fpprec:16;
> fpprintprec:4;
> 1.56789b0 -> 1.567b0
>
>
> Yes, the correct result here would be 1.568b0.
Hmm. That's not so easy with the current algorithm because the number
has already been converted to a list of individual digits. Doing the
example above is easy, but not so easy for something like 1.999999b0.
This will have to wait for another day.
Ray