istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos) (12/29/89)
In the absence of elegant solutions to the _doprint-less ftoa problem
posed by Marcus J. Ranum, I posted a highly tedious one to alt.sources;
converting the float into two ulongs (one for the whole-number part and
one for the fraction), and breaking each one down to decimal digits.
As Simon & Garfunkel once said about floating point precision:
"...any way you look at it, you loose."
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