Method BigDecimal: 0 digits algorithm

[BurdetteLamar]

Doc for method BigDecimal says:

• When arg is a Float and digits is 0, the number
• of digits is determined by the algorithm of dtoa function
• written by David M. Gay. That algorithm is based on "How to Print Floating-
• Point Numbers Accurately" by Guy L. Steele, Jr. and Jon L. White [Proc. ACM
• SIGPLAN '90, pp. 112-126].

Is this also true for other methods that have digits/ndigits?

[mrkn]

Your understanding is correct right now. But I don't want to mention the detail algorithm how to generate the decimal notation in the documentation because it is not the specification but an implementation detail.

The specification of the method BigDecimal is that it generates a decimal notation from a Float so that it can be converted back to the original number and it's number of digits is fewer than the other decimal notation candidates that can be converted back to the original. The number of digits may not be the fewest.

[BurdetteLamar]

I have omitted the passge. Hope that's what you meant.