Printing floating points

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 02:17:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> If there was a way to make these tables pay-as-you-go, I'd vote 
> for it. Adding 104KB or 52KB even if the code never once 
> formats a float, is not ideal, though granted, in this day and 
> age of cheap, high-capacity RAM not really a big issue.

Network transfer costs responsiveness,  Web/WASM. 100Kb to do 
float to string conversion in a web app would be crazy. Same with 
embedded.

Anyway, in most system programming scenarios where you control 
the format it would be better to use hex for accuracy anyway.