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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
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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.
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