Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:57:28 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: printf "%g" format conversions
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:

> According to the standard, printf ("%.3g", 0.01234) should give rise to
> "0.012" as is produced by v2.01.  Microsoft C violates the standard as
> does Borland - both print "0.0123".  My guess is that this relates to
> the significant digits controversy.

Yes.  It could be argued that 0.012 is only 2 significant digits,
whereas %.3g requests for 3.