Re: float_to_list(X)

Scott Ribe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On May 5, 2021, at 10:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> In short, no.

Although many (most, actually nearly all) real numbers cannot be represented precisely as a float, any float can be round-tripped to text and back exactly. This is part of the IEEE floating point standard, actually. (And it's not easy...)
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