From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-31T00:09:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18809] Re: Printing significant digits past decimal point

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> How does one print a maximum number of significant digits
> past a decimal point? I thought sprintf("%.ng", val) would
> do it.

For %g, the precision gives the number of significant digits, not the
decimal places.

Dave