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Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast


And Fast (Floating Point Formatting, Part 3) Russ Cox January 19, 2026 research.swtch.com/fp Posted on Monday, January 19, 2026. PDF January 19, 2026 research.swtch.com/fp Introduction A floating point number has the form where is called the mantissa and is a signed integer exponent.

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