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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2013-10-11 14:18:24 +0300
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2013-10-11 14:18:24 +0300
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Minor wording improvements in gawk manual.
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@@ -10025,7 +10025,7 @@ with @code{CONVFMT} as the format
specifier
(@pxref{String Functions}).
-@code{CONVFMT}'s default value is @code{"%.6g"}, which prints a value with
+@code{CONVFMT}'s default value is @code{"%.6g"}, which creates a value with
at most six significant digits. For some applications, you might want to
change it to specify more precision.
On most modern machines,
@@ -28203,7 +28203,7 @@ This makes it clear that the full numeric value is different from
what the default string representations show.
@code{CONVFMT}'s default value is @code{"%.6g"}, which yields a value with
-at least six significant digits. For some applications, you might want to
+at most six significant digits. For some applications, you might want to
change it to specify more precision.
On most modern machines, most of the time,
17 digits is enough to capture a floating-point number's