make use of scientific notation for BigFloat consistent with other types #29211
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This switches to non-scientific notation when the scientific exponent
would be in
-4:5
, as is the case for e.g. Float64.For example,
string(big(42.0))
is now"42.0"
.This is a change I've wanted for quite a while, I don't know if I'm in the minority here. I didn't find a discussion on this topic (except for removing a useless
"e+00"
), so I'm not sure whether the current printing is just inherited from the choices made in MPFR, or if this was a conscious decision.I mostly use
BigFloat
in a range where I find the scientific notation as an obstacle to my human parsing, e.g.In particular in the last example, it's easy for me to forget to look at the end to check if there is an exponent.
With this PR, this is turned into