Re: [Gretl-devel] Number of digits in export
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:
2) If you set a value for "csv_digits" then gretl
doesn't try to do anything
clever, it just prints CSV values to the specified number of significant
digits (not decimal places). Note that we use "%g" conversion, so trailing
zeros are dropped.
We could use "%#g" conversion to preserve trailing zeros in
CSV output when csv_digits is set, but I don't really see the
advantage in that. Trailing zeros are "significant digits" in
a mathematical sense but they don't have any significance to a
computer reading numerical input from text (as many trailing
zeros as the double precision floating-point type supports are
implicit in a numeric string such as "1.52").
Allin