[erlang-questions] display floats without -e?

[PAILLEAU Eric]

Hi Richard,
yes by using 'compact' option of float_to_list/2 you get
1> floaty:auto(12.3455555533).
"12.3455555533"

cheers

Le 01/01/2019 à 12:11, Richard O'Keefe a écrit :
> You might want to do some more testing.
> 
> 11> floaty:auto(12.3455555533).
> "12.345555553300000"
> 
> It is not clear that this is something you would be happy with.
> I discovered this by simplifying the code to
> 
> auto(F) when is_float(F) ->
>     P = precision(abs(F), 0),
>     erlang:float_to_list(F, [{decimals,P}]).
> 
> -spec precision(float(), integer()) -> integer().
> precision(A, P) ->
>      if A == trunc(A) -> P
>       ; true          -> precision(A*10.0, P+1)
>      end.
> 
> and doing some testing of my own.  I was rather relieved to discover
> that the original code behaved the same way.
> 
> It's really not clear what the aim is here.
> I suspect that it is something that should be
> done with numbers rather than lists.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 23:43, PAILLEAU Eric <eric.pailleau@REDACTED 
> <mailto:eric.pailleau@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
> 
>     1> c(floaty).
>     {ok,floaty}
>     2> floaty:auto(12.345555).
>     "12.345555"
>     3> floaty:auto(12.3455553333333).
>     "12.3455553333333"
>     4> list_to_float(floaty:auto(12.3455553333333)).
>     12.3455553333333
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Le 31/12/2018 à 20:31, Dan Sommers a écrit :
>      > On 12/31/18 10:37 AM, Vans S wrote:
>      >
>      >  > > 1> 0.0001.
>      >  > 0.0001
>      >  > > 2> 0.00001.
>      >  > 1.0e-5
>      >
>      >  > Once floats get to the 4th/5th decimal place they start being
>      >  > displayed with the e-x notation.  Is there a way to make them
>     always
>      >  > display "normally", for example 0.00001 in this case ...
>      >
>      > At some point, it's shorter and easier to read with the e-x notation.
>      >
>      > Consider a number like 1e-44.  The last thing I want is to have
>     to count
>      > all those zeros.  ;-)
>      >
>      > But you probably knew that.
>      >
>      >  > ... The problem is when you turn the float into a string, its also
>      >  > displayed as 1.0e-5, adding a format function works yes, but gets
>      >  > annoying to maintain when you need to do arithmetic on the floats.
>      >  > LIke sorting by the value.
>      >
>      > I'm confused:  if you're doing arithmetic on the floats, why are you
>      > concerned with the strings?
>      >
>      > If you're sorting the strings, then you'll probably either (a)
>     have to
>      > ensure a consistent format, perhaps with something like a ~24.18.0e
>      > specifier, or (b) convert the strings back to floats and suffer
>     various
>      > rounding errors.
>      >
>      >  > Also debugging becomes annoying when you see the e-5, e-6, etc
>      >  > notation everywhere and have to match it up.
>      >
>      > On that we agree.  :-)
>      >
>      >  > Is there a way to compile / add arg to the VM to not do this?
>      >
>      > I'm pretty new at Erlang, so I'm probably missing a lot, but how
>     are you
>      > displaying the values now if not with a format function?  (I guess
>      > there's io:write, but at that point, you're awfully close to calling
>      > io:fwrite anyway.)
>      >
>      > Are you just using the shell to do immediate calculations?  I'm sure
>      > that the shell has its own default formatting, or maybe it just calls
>      > io:write.
>      >
>      > Dan
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