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Re: number notation in official parts
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:22:45 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Timothy Gould wrote:
> My point is that to write in mixed format (some %f and others %e) requires some
> strange coding unless there is a weird language which does it automatically. I'm
> pretty sure that to do it in C or Fortran would be quite hard.
Actually, in C, %g does exactly this. Having said that, I think LDDP is a
Delphi app, so it uses Pascal, and I don't remember how Pascal does formatting.
--Travis
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| (...) Ahhh. I'd never heard of %g before now. I'm so used to %f and %e it had never occured to me that there might be a mixed option. Handy to know as I suspect it would be helpful in reading files of unknown format. I'm sure Delphi has some hideous (...) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I definitely know this. I see them far too much in my job as a numerical physicist ;) My point is that to write in mixed format (some %f and others %e) requires some strange coding unless there is a weird language which does it automatically. (...) (15 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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