[PATCH] 4511638: Double.toString(double) sometimes produces incorrect results

[raffaello.giulietti at gmail.com]

On 2018-10-03 11:12, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 02/10/18 19:17, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> Raffaello and Ulf should talk.
>> It seems like Ulf's ryu project is trying to solve the same problem.
>> ryu is also still being worked on, but there is already a published paper
>> and ryu is being adopted by various core libraries.
>> https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu
>> https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369
>> Ulf, if you haven't already signed an Oracle Contributor Agreement for
>> openjdk, you should do so.
>> (Who knew printing floating point numbers could be so hard?)
> 
> Well, Guy Steele and Jon L White, for starters (quite literally) [1]
> 

In my eyes, the clarity of that paper is almost mythical.
I wish I could follow their teaching myself.





> [1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=93559
> 
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> Andrew Dinn
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