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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Arfrever, BreamoreBoy, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, larry, loewis, mark.dickinson, mirabilos, pitrou, schwab, skrah, tim.peters
Date 2014-04-09.17:23:25
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> under some conditions involving denormalized numbers the result may lose a bit of precision

That sounds like a non-issue for this application: the dtoa.c computations are careful to avoid subnormals in intermediate computations.

If mirabilos has withdrawn his objection, is there anything blocking applying this for 3.5?
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2014-04-09 17:23:26mark.dickinsonsetrecipients: + mark.dickinson, tim.peters, loewis, georg.brandl, pitrou, larry, benjamin.peterson, Arfrever, skrah, BreamoreBoy, mirabilos, schwab
2014-04-09 17:23:26mark.dickinsonsetmessageid: <1397064206.32.0.949352031405.issue20904@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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