[vtk-developers] Call for Comments: Ascii representation of floats and doubles in files

Sean McBride sean at rogue-research.com
Thu Mar 1 11:51:13 EST 2018


On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 09:32:49 -0700, David Gobbi said:

>I agree that floats should be printed so that conversion is lossless.
>Python's console output does this and I find it incredibly useful.
>
>Not sure if we need to add a new third-party library for this, though,
>especially one that duplicates so much of C++'s built-in machinery.
>Isn't it just a matter of printing enough digits?

Yes, a nice article on the subject:
<https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/float-precision-revisited-nine-digit-float-portability/>

Sean




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