Re: why tostring for number use LUA_NUMBER_FMT "%.14g", not "%.16g" ?

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> The key sentence in Roberto's e-mail is 'Well, we do not.', which was
> in response to the answer "Yes, I think we do." in reply to the question
> 'Do we really want "tostring(0.1)" to return "0.10000000000000001"?'
> 
> I.e. the Lua team is not going to change the default output format,
> no matter how long this thread goes on.
> 
> Signing off,
> Dirk
> 

Wonderful.