%g format in printf

[Norman Diamond]

In article <1989Sep9.013233.9939 at sq.sq.com> msb at sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>As for a value of 1024, of course "%.1g" of that should produce "1e3",
>or rather, "1e+03".

Why does the exponent "rather" have a leading zero?  If the standard
mandates (or even allows) this, it is the only place where it specifies
a leading zero in a place where the programmer did not request it.

(And if so, why not pad it with more leading zeroes, so that a machine
that can handle exponents up to 75024 can say 1e+00003.)

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