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