How to format float unambiguously?

[Ali Çehreli]

[Sorry for the double-post Nic.]

On 8/31/21 5:31 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
 > On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 17:53:12 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
 >> When formatting floats, as far as I can tell, one either has to pick 
the whole decimal gallery, or accept that the end result might be ambiguous.
 >
 > I don't know what your use case is but have you tried %a which 
formats it as a hex float?

I was going to suggest the same but because I did not understand 
anything about the question I kept it to myself. :) (What is ambiguous 
about 1 or 1.000000? :) )

I use %a to show differences at bit level between two executions, which 
should produce the same bit result.

Ali