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XXXXXX.FF versus X.XXXXXFFE<exp>
- To: ES at MIT-MC
- Subject: XXXXXX.FF versus X.XXXXXFFE<exp>
- From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 78 23:21:00 GMT
- Cc: JPG at MIT-MC, (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 24 NOV 1978 1821-EST
I think it is a parameter in the assembly of LISP as to how
many digits it tolerates to the left of the decimal point, currently
set to 8. Probably the reason for that is that all 8-digit (decimal)
integers are representable exactly as a floating-point number.
There is a package to to fortran-style formating - see LIBDOC:FFORMA >