%g format in printf

[Chris Torek]

In article <1439 at hiatus.dec.com> daniels at grue.dec.com (Bradford R. Daniels)
writes:
>Also, the definition of significant digits I learned in my high
>school science classes says that if I am asked to print out 1024
>with 1 significant digit, I should get 1000 printed out.  Is that
>correct?

No: `1000' has four significant digits (as does `1.000'); you need `1e3'.
I have seen arguments on both sides of this, but only believe the one
that says `the number of digits written is the number of significant
digits'.
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