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Binary floating-point to decimal string conversion algorithm.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2016-01-17 · latest 2020-10-30

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    Errol: Binary floating-point to decimal string conversion algorithm
    story by fanf2 · 2020-10-30 · 0 comments
  2. https://github.com/marcandrysco/Errol > Our original evaluation of Errol against the prior work of Grisu3 was erroneous. The evaluation indicates a 2x speed improvement over Grisu3. However, corrected performance measurements show a 2x…
    comment by willlll · 2017-04-02 · in 0.30000000000000004
  3. Author here. We intend for the GitHub repo ( https://github.com/marcandrysco/Errol ) to be the primary source for Errol. We still want to add a few improvements to the existing implementation: selecting the middle-most shortest number and…
  4. …seems to be the artifact in question. (My friend also noted that there is a Github repo in https://github.com/marcandrysco/Errol , but I'm not sure if it is intended to be canonical.) > Python currently uses David Gay's algorithm and would…