- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:30:44 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
Also sprach Boris Zbarsky:
> > (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?
That sounds exhaustive. There is no way to set the precision? Like "%.2f"?
> 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.
Right. I can't think of a meaningful way of using numbers as small as
10^{-6}. At that stage, most properties would be happy with
zero, I believe.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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