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2015 Aug 10
2
Bug or expected behavior of APFloat class?
...s lately and I came
across behavior I was not expecting based on reading the
implementation comments and I'm wondering if it's a bug or
intentional.
The behavior concerns converting an APFloat to a string and back
again. In the implementation of ``APFloat::toString(...)`` you can
specify ``FormatPrecision`` as 0. The method comments state that this
will use the "natural precision" of the number. In the actual
implementation the comments say that when FormatPrecision is 0 that
```
// We use enough digits so the number can be round-tripped back to an
// APFloat. The formula comes from "...