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+NSPR provides functions that convert double-precision floating point
+numbers to and from their character string representations.
+
+These conversion functions were originally written by David M. Gay of
+AT&T. They use IEEE double-precision (not IEEE double-extended)
+arithmetic.
+
+The header file ``prdtoa.h`` declares these functions. The functions
+are:
+
+ - :ref:`PR_strtod`
+ - :ref:`PR_dtoa`
+ - :ref:`PR_cnvtf`
+
+References
+----------
+
+Gay's implementation is inspired by these two papers.
+
+[1] William D. Clinger, "How to Read Floating Point Numbers Accurately,"
+Proc. ACM SIGPLAN '90, pp. 92-101.
+
+[2] Guy L. Steele, Jr. and Jon L. White, "How to Print Floating-Point
+Numbers Accurately," Proc. ACM SIGPLAN '90, pp. 112-126.