- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:05:17 -0400
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
On 9/1/10 1:49 AM, Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> (I also think there should be a way to serialize JS without suddenly
> switching notation.)
In theory, there is. It will, generally speaking, produce decimal
numbers with up to 300 digits or so, right? And it happens to not be
part of the language, unlike the ways of serializing that might output
e-notation. It also happens to not be part of standard number-to-string
conversion libraries, last I checked.
Note that JS will only switch to e-notation for numbers whose absolute
value is more than 10^20 or less than 10^{-6}. [1] While using decimal
notation for the latter can sort of be ok if they're close to 10^{-6},
for the 20-digit or more ones it gets pretty silly very fast.
-Boris
[1] ECMA 262 section 9.8.1 items 6-9.
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