Re: float output precision questions

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 23:19:05 +0100,
>   Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>There isn't a way right now, but it's planned to be able to dump
>>floating-point numbers in some binary form (like printf("%A")) to be able
>>to restore them exactly.  Not sure how that would satisfy the needs of
>>client interfaces, though.
> 
> 
> Why not print it as a floating binary number instead of a floating decimal
> number? I would think that would give you better portability than a system
> specific binary representation.

Having a way to get the binary storage representation for float numbers 
would be good and would suffice within the same float number standard.

Thanks,
Pedro M. Ferreira

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