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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote
>
>> values, the precision field indicates the maximum number of decimal
>> digits printed (for g and G)
>
> Maximum digits.  Not maximum digits after the decimal point.

Thanks for the answer (and for djgpp, by the way)... I was partly 
mislead by "the number of fraction digits for a floating point number 
(max for g or G, actual for others)" in the online docs that made me 
think that g and f differred only marginally with this respect, but I 
now see that I got the worst possible choice of a test case...

Thanks again
-mario

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