Commit 933d521a authored by Rob Pike's avatar Rob Pike

fmt: clarify that for %g precision determines number of significant digits

Documentation change only.

Fixes #15178.

Change-Id: I3c7d80ce9e668ac7515f7ebb9da80f3bd8e534d6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22006Reviewed-by: 's avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent 6e5027a3
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For floating-point values, width sets the minimum width of the field and
precision sets the number of places after the decimal, if appropriate,
except that for %g/%G it sets the total number of digits. For example,
given 123.45 the format %6.2f prints 123.45 while %.4g prints 123.5.
The default precision for %e and %f is 6; for %g it is the smallest
number of digits necessary to identify the value uniquely.
except that for %g/%G precision sets the total number of significant
digits. For example, given 12.345 the format %6.3f prints 12.345 while
%.3g prints 12.3. The default precision for %e and %f is 6; for %g it
is the smallest number of digits necessary to identify the value uniquely.
For complex numbers, the width and precision apply to the two
components independently and the result is parenthesized, so %f applied
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