GNU bug report logs - #25557
Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
Cc: 25557 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:25:20 +0200

> Cc: 25557 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:18:44 -0500
> 
> I'm trying to get the shortest representation of a decimal number, rounded to .01, not using scientific/exponential notation.  I'm using values computed in ELisp to produce CSS style sheets, which until recently didn't allow for exponential notation.  I'd like these stylesheets to be readable, so 100% is better 100.00%, and 3.35em is better than 3.35004em. If my code is fed a value of 5000px, I don't want it converted to 5e+3px, because many browsers don't know how to parse that.

Then I think you want to use %d for integral values and %.2f for the
rest.

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