Hello,
I'd like to print floating point numbers without trailing zeros.
I tried using %g, but now small numbers are printed in the %e
style ("Style e is used if the exponent from its conversion is
less than -4"). Is there some way to control this number (-4)?
I.e. can I get printf to print something like 0.0000001, but no
trailing zeros? Or should I do this by hand?
Thanks,
Mandar.
Nov 15 '05
21  1998 
In article <11************ **********@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
William Hughes <wp*******@hotm ail.com> wrote: Normally, .2, .20, .200 mean different things, so supressing
the trailing zeros usually a BAD THING.
However, the author of the program may not be in a position to know
which of these is the right one.
As an extreme but realistic example, consider a general-purpose
calculator program. Only the user knows the appropriate precision,
and always presenting resulta to many figures would be hard to read.
A pocket calculator that didn't suppress trailing zeros would be
unpopular.
-- Richard
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:07:29 GMT, in comp.lang.c , ga*****@yin.int eraccess.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote: In article <r1************ *************** *****@4ax.com>,
Mark McIntyre <ma**********@s pamcop.net> wrote:
Well, fundamentally .2, .20 and .200 cannnot actually mean different
things, so the difference is nothing more than cosmetic. What were you
thinking of?
They mean very different things, as I am sure you are well aware.
No, they mean exactly the same thing. Have you invented a new form of
maths ? :-)
You'd better explain what you're thinking of.
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:22:00 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<ks***@mib.or g> wrote: They certainly can mean different things.
I disagree, but then I'm a physicist and engineer by training. :-)
they can imply different levels of precision. ".2" can (sometimes)
mean anything from 0.15 to 0.25, whereas ".200" can mean anything from
0.1995 to 0.2005 (I'm ignoring the question of whether the endpoints
are included in the range).
The /string/ "0.2" can indeed have a variety of possible underlying
/values/. But then, the same is true of pretty much any printed
representation of a numerical value. So this isn't an especially
useful consideration IMHO.
The number 0.2 is the same, irrespective of how many decimals you
choose to print it to.
I thought we were discussing numbers.
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Mark McIntyre wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:07:29 GMT, in comp.lang.c ,
ga*****@yin.int eraccess.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
In article <r1************ *************** *****@4ax.com>,
Mark McIntyre <ma**********@s pamcop.net> wrote:
Well, fundamentally .2, .20 and .200 cannnot actually mean different
things, so the difference is nothing more than cosmetic. What were you
thinking of?
They mean very different things, as I am sure you are well aware.
No, they mean exactly the same thing. Have you invented a new form of
maths ? :-)
You'd better explain what you're thinking of.
These are obviously different things to anyone who lives in the real
world rather than in the rarefied world of pure number.
modulo rounding algorithm]
0.2 means in [0.15,0.25]
0.20 means in [0.195, 0.205]
0.200 means in [0.1995, 0.2005]
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:35:42 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Martin Ambuhl
<ma*****@earthl ink.net> wrote: These are obviously different things to anyone who lives in the real
world rather than in the rarefied world of pure number.
modulo rounding algorithm]
0.2 means in [0.15,0.25]
0.20 means in [0.195, 0.205]
0.200 means in [0.1995, 0.2005]
I completely disagree, and believe that your statement above is
classically muddle-headed.
However this isn't a C question so lets move along.
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Mark McIntyre <ma**********@s pamcop.net> writes: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:22:00 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<ks***@mib.or g> wrote:
They certainly can mean different things.
I disagree, but then I'm a physicist and engineer by training. :-)
they can imply different levels of precision. ".2" can (sometimes)
mean anything from 0.15 to 0.25, whereas ".200" can mean anything from
0.1995 to 0.2005 (I'm ignoring the question of whether the endpoints
are included in the range).
The /string/ "0.2" can indeed have a variety of possible underlying
/values/. But then, the same is true of pretty much any printed
representation of a numerical value. So this isn't an especially
useful consideration IMHO.
The number 0.2 is the same, irrespective of how many decimals you
choose to print it to.
I thought we were discussing numbers.
Certainly the *numbers" 0.2, 0.20, and 0.200 are exactly the same. As
strings, they're obviously different, and as strings representing
numbers they can denote different precisions.
Since the topic of this thread involves printf(), it seems reasonable
to assume that we're talking about them as strings representating
numbers, not necessarily as numbers.
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:17:46 +0000, in comp.lang.c , Mark McIntyre
<ma**********@s pamcop.net> wrote: I completely disagree, and believe that your statement above is
classically muddle-headed.
Er, apologies, I missed out at least some indication of humour here.
I /do/ disagree with you, but I consider this very much a friendly
disagreement and wanted to apologise in advance if my earlier post
seemed unduly rude.
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:58:34 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<ks***@mib.or g> wrote: Certainly the *numbers" 0.2, 0.20, and 0.200 are exactly the same. As
strings, they're obviously different, and as strings representing
numbers they can denote different precisions.
Yes, of course. But lets remember that the OP wanted to remove
trailing zeros, not round numbers. In this context, there's absolutely
no difference between these three values.
Since the topic of this thread involves printf(), it seems reasonable
to assume that we're talking about them as strings representating
numbers, not necessarily as numbers.
I think my point was that *in the context of the numbers the OP wanted
to display*, there was absolutely no difference.
By the way I agree I misunderstood Kenny's point. But in any events I
happen also to think its nonrelevant. Consider that if the project
definition calls for trailing zeros to be removed, then this is what
you do, and you assume that whichever users agreed the spec actually
knew what they were asking for...
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Mark McIntyre wrote: Keith Thompson <ks***@mib.or g> wrote:
They certainly can mean different things.
I disagree, but then I'm a physicist and engineer by training. :-)
they can imply different levels of precision. ".2" can (sometimes)
mean anything from 0.15 to 0.25, whereas ".200" can mean anything from
0.1995 to 0.2005 (I'm ignoring the question of whether the endpoints
are included in the range).
I thought we were discussing numbers.
If the number is the result of some kind of physical measurement,
then it is normal to include the accuracy of the number. For
example,
Foobar's constant is 0.2000 (to 4 significant figures).
This is undoubtedly a different result to:
Foobar's constant is 0.2 (to 1 significant figure).
Further, it is a common shorthand to suppress the
"(to X s.f.)" bit, and use trailing zeroes to indicate
significant figures.
William Hughes was certainly foolish to say that wanting
to print "0.2" by itself is "stupid". But there are many
common contexts (other than in experimental physics as my
example was) where the reader of the output will be expecting
the output to also encode information about its accuracy.
Kenny McCormack wrote: In article <r1************ *************** *****@4ax.com>,
Mark McIntyre <ma**********@s pamcop.net> wrote:On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:38:15 GMT, in comp.lang.c ,
ga*****@yin.i nteraccess.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
In article <sl************ *******@random. yi.org>,
Jordan Abel <jm****@purdue. edu> wrote:
On 2005-10-29, William Hughes <wp*******@hotm ail.com> wrote:
> Normally, .2, .20, .200 mean different things, so supressing
> the trailing zeros usually a BAD THING.
I can't think of any situation where they could mean different
things to C - and C itself does not provide for a way to easily
track significant figures.
Ask yourself who *reads* the output of programs.
Well, fundamentally .2, .20 and .200 cannnot actually mean different
things, so the difference is nothing more than cosmetic. What were you
thinking of?
They mean very different things, as I am sure you are well aware.
They all mean 1/5th.
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