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Floating-Point Printing and Parsing

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2026-01-24 · latest 2026-08-20

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  1. …). It uses C code from Russ Cox's original fpfmt repository ( https://github.com/rsc/fpfmt/tree/main/bench/uscalec ), which is slightly different from the Go code upthread. Zmij and xjb are in a league of their own. Broa
    comment by e4m2 · 2026-08-20 · in Go 1.27
  2. Note that it has the same table of powers of 10: https://github.com/rsc/fpfmt/blob/main/bench/uscalec/pow10.h
    comment by vitaut · 2026-01-24 · in Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast
  3. > Russ Cox should make a C version of his code. https://github.com/rsc/fpfmt/blob/main/bench/uscalec/ftoa.c
    comment by nigeltao · 2026-01-24 · in Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast