From 1fd6a6b9f01f797cfc1c15cd412731154520238f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vectornaut Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:37:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain purpose of floating-point representation section --- Storage-format.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Storage-format.md b/Storage-format.md index 41be5f7..d766b98 100644 --- a/Storage-format.md +++ b/Storage-format.md @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ These are articles I came across while trying to understand YAML's bad reputatio ## Floating-point representation -Ryan Juckett has written a detailed history of round-trip-stable string formatting algorithms for floating-point numbers. +We probably don't need to know much about how to represent floating-point numbers as human-readable strings, because we'll probably choose a serialization framework that does it for us. These articles are useful background, though. + +Ryan Juckett has written a detailed history of faithful string formatting algorithms for floating-point numbers. > Ryan Juckett.["Printing Floating-Point Numbers"](https://www.ryanjuckett.com/printing-floating-point-numbers/) (2014).