Bizarre floating-point output

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <50fdf9F1fki7dU3 at mid.individual.net>,
Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> writes:
|> 
|> > The use of different precisions for the two cases is not, however,
|> > and it is that I was and am referring to.
|> 
|> You mistake "precision" with "display". 

Not at all.  "Precision" has been used to indicate the number of digits
after the decimal point for at least 60 years, probably 100; in 40 years
of IT and using dozens of programming languages, I have never seen
"display" used for that purpose.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.