1 Sep
2012
1 Sep
'12
5 a.m.
* Warren Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> [Sep 01. 2012 11:55]:
You have a 64-bit IEEE floating point real. You wish to print it in decimal in the format 1.2345e17. [...]
First check how MPFR handles the problem (assuming it is addressed), see http://www.mpfr.org/ I also guess (the bibliography of) Jean-Michel Muller, Nicolas Brisebarre, Florent de Dinechin, \ Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Vincent Lef\`{e}vre, Guillaume Melquiond, \ Nathalie Revol, Damien Stehl\'{e}, Serge Torres: {Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic}, Birkh\"{a}user, (2010). % http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/book/978-0-8176-4704-9 should be interesting.