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Conversions of numerical values to string representations, and the reverse, are surprisingly complex and difficult. Older programming languages provide limited support, such as Fortran’s FORMAT statement specifier Iw for integer conversions, and Ew.d, Fw.d, and Gw.d for floating-point conversions.
Input and output for this machine are expressed in standard teletype code, with a coded symbol for the operation required.
— Douglas R. Hartree
Calculating Instruments & Machines (1950).
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Beebe, N.H.F. (2017). Floating-point output. In: The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64110-2_26
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