Re: History of CREATE...DOES> ?

There are so many implementation-defined options and ambiguous
conditions in the fp-number standard which altogether leave a
lot of leeway. And f.ex. omission of trailing zeros isn't
specified at all.
So what are you missing? It is a playing field _deliberately_
made with few boundaries.
Theoretically one could argue that a reference Forth system
or a specified set ouf fp output formats would be of help.
But nobody cares. Individual narrow interpretations even less.
So what ..