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Printf %g behaves strangely with 0 precision. #14360

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mason-bially opened this issue Dec 11, 2015 · 2 comments
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Printf %g behaves strangely with 0 precision. #14360

mason-bially opened this issue Dec 11, 2015 · 2 comments
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domain:display and printing Aesthetics and correctness of printed representations of objects. kind:bug Indicates an unexpected problem or unintended behavior status:help wanted Indicates that a maintainer wants help on an issue or pull request

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@mason-bially
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Discovered during #14331.

Namely these cases.

julia> @sprintf("%#.0g", 42)
"4.200000e+01"
c-> "4.e+01"

julia> @sprintf("%.0g", 42)
"4.2e+01"
c-> "4e+01"

julia> @sprintf("%.0g", 42.3)
"4.23e+01"
c-> "4e+01"

I'll be happy to take it.
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Please do! I'll act as backstop if you don't get around to it.

@StefanKarpinski StefanKarpinski added domain:strings "Strings!" status:help wanted Indicates that a maintainer wants help on an issue or pull request labels Sep 13, 2016
@StefanKarpinski StefanKarpinski added this to the 0.5.x milestone Sep 13, 2016
@StefanKarpinski StefanKarpinski added status:help wanted Indicates that a maintainer wants help on an issue or pull request and removed status:help wanted Indicates that a maintainer wants help on an issue or pull request labels Oct 27, 2016
@JeffBezanson JeffBezanson added kind:bug Indicates an unexpected problem or unintended behavior domain:display and printing Aesthetics and correctness of printed representations of objects. and removed domain:strings "Strings!" labels May 21, 2018
@JeffBezanson JeffBezanson modified the milestones: 0.5.x, 1.0.x May 21, 2018
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quinnj commented Sep 8, 2020

These cases are fixed in #32859

@quinnj quinnj closed this as completed Sep 8, 2020
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