Re: number->string radix patch

[Marius Vollmer]

Richard Todd <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:36:07PM -0700, Robert Uhl wrote:
>> Although my one true project is to figure out number->string well enough
>> to make it Do the Right Thing for decimals in bases other than 10 (I'm a
>> big fan of duodecimal).
>
> I've seen this wish twice from you in the short time I've been
> watching guile-user, so I took a crack at it.

Ok, I have finally installed your patch.  Thanks again!  (I wrote a
basic ChangeLog entry, but please do that yourself for the next
patch.)

I used your examples as test cases, but cannot reproduce some:

> guile> (number->string 0.25 2)
> "0.01"
> guile> (number->string 11.33333333333333333 12)
> "B.4"
> guile> (number->string 1.324e44 16)
> "5.EFE0A14FAFEe24"

I get

  guile> (number->string 0.25 2)
  "0.010"
  guile> (number->string 11.33333333333333333 12)
  "B.400000000000009"
  guile> (number->string 1.324e44 16)
  "5.EFE0A14FAFDF8e24"

The first looks certainly wrong, but I'm not sure about the other two.
Richard, could you try to investigate this?

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