eric@bode.ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum,EB 547,4626) (07/06/90)
Looks like there were a couple of problems with my article describing
what I believe to be a bug in printf.
1. I don't know how the reply field got trashed. The reply field
should have been: eric@bode.ee.ualberta.ca
2. I didn't state my problem clearly enough. The bug is in the way
the `%g' format of the C printf function handles floating point
numbers with exponents between -1 and -4, inclusive. My comments
about gnuplot were confusing. It was when working with gnuplot that
I discovered the problem with printf.
Summary: on the NeXT:
printf ("%.3g\n", 0.0001234);
prints 0, and I think it should print 0.000123
Eric Norum
Dept. of Electrical Engineering eric@bode.ee.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada. phone: (403) 492-4626