Re: -0.00000?

[Gabriel Zachmann]

>  >>  > Occasionally, when I printf("%f") a float value,
>  >>  > I get -0.00000 as output (or -0 when I printf("%g") ).
>  >>  [-]
>  >>  Yes, this is legal and all that.
>  > 
>  > Well, that's a pity - I never got that under IRIX on SGI ...
>  [-]
>  IEEE standard, but I didn't know either. Just ran into it and

I changed my printf to printf("%.8f") -
still I get -0.00000000.
Surely, the IEEE standard doesn't state that there is some kind of
"hidden" precision bits, which will never get printed?

Gab.

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