Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

On 9/04/2025 11:14 pm, sjack wrote:

Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> wrote:

that's helpful. But do you mean "significant digits" the way I mean
"significant digits"? I don't think so.. The beauty of "most significant

 
If you take a measurement and get a four digit number where the last
digit was result of rounding, then you have three significant digits.
 
But "words lie"; just their nature.

But when Forth-94 instructs you to 'round the number to n significant digits'
what is unclear?  Not the numerical result.

What's ambiguous in Forth-94 is the returned representation i.e. should
REPRESENT return '0's representing the insignificant digits; should F.
trim the redundant trailing '0's.