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Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast

Russ Cox · 19 Jan 2026 · research.swtch.com

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  1. Given the simplicity and speed of the algorithms in this post and the increasingly small deltas between successive algorithms, perhaps we are nearing an optimal solution.