Bengt Richter wrote: > Nit: why not move 10** out of myfloat into SI_prefixes > (i.e., just retrieve precalculated factors)? the table I cut and pasted from only listed the exponents. if you want to prefix 1e to all the constants, be my guest. > Nit_2: No twinge of conscience shadowing str? ;-) not the slightest. </F>