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Allow math --scale=max for maximum digits #5579

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floam opened this issue Jan 24, 2019 · 6 comments
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Allow math --scale=max for maximum digits #5579

floam opened this issue Jan 24, 2019 · 6 comments

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floam commented Jan 24, 2019

math should have an easier way of showing the maximum digits possible for floating point numbers than increasing -s until you get an error (15 currently, which corresponds to FLT_DIG. This could perhaps go up a little bit if we decided to use long double - I plan to do this to tinyexpr.cpp).

The most straightforward thing would be just letting the user pass -1 for a scale that is limited only by precision.

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floam commented Jan 24, 2019

I'm a little annoyed I forgot to report this and do it before fish 3.0.0.

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faho commented Jan 24, 2019

Do we want just "-1", or also -2, -3 and so on, which seems kinda useless?

Or do we want --scale=max?

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floam commented Jan 24, 2019

Do we want just "-1", or also -2, -3 and so on, which seems kinda useless?

Seems useless to me. The way I started doing it was just the special value of -1: floam@cbb7fcb

Or do we want --scale=max?

That might be a better experience for the user.

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+1 to --scale=max

@floam floam changed the title Allow math --scale -1 for maximum digits Allow math --scale=max for maximum digits Jan 25, 2019
@faho faho modified the milestones: fish-future, fish 3.1.0 Feb 13, 2019
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faho commented Feb 13, 2019

Fixed in ca5b7c0.

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floam commented Feb 14, 2019

Cool!

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