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A PostScript interpreter in C
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8 Digit real precision #29

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
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3. http://www.tinaja.com/glib/ps8dprp1.pdf

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Document describes a technique for getting 8 decimal digits
out of a 32-bit IEEE 754 float in a postscript environment.

Xpost uses a custom C procedure to implement number-to-string
conversions, and could adopt these techniques internally.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by luser.droog on 7 Apr 2014 at 4:58