[m-rev.] for review: Java implementation of string library

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Dec-2003, James Goddard <goddardjames at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > One thing to be aware of here is that the string
> > generated by this
> > predicate must be round-trippable, i.e. when
> > converting the string back
> > to a float one gets exactly the same floating point
> > number.
> 
> Yes, this is the case.[...]
> However it doesn't work the other way around - that
> is, it is possible to convert a string to a float and
> then convert back to a string and get a different
> string.
> For example, both "+1" and "1" will convert to the
> same floating point number, as will "0.5" and "0.50".
> 
> I assume this is ok?

Yes, that should be fine.

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