SharkD <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I thought the "system
> specific" option in the "str" function returned values using this amount.

  Nope. It returns the amount of decimals shown by default by printf in clib
(when the number of decimals to show is not specified), which has nothing to
do about how many decimals 64-bit IEEE floating point numbers use.

  If you want to know how 64-bit IEEE floating point numbers work, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

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                                                          - Warp

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