Andy Wingo <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> writes:

> Actually I think this problem is less exciting.

This is exactly what I was hoping for!

> Your format was:
>
> ~9,8,,,0g
>
> So you are specifying a width of 9 chars, 8 mantissa digits, and an
> "overflow character" of zero, which also has the effect of making the
> width a hard limit. Also note that your overflow char is
> (integer->char 0), not # -- the nul byte, indeed a control character.

This makes sense.  Using just "~f " fixed some of the output, but not
all.  I will work more with the format strings.

Thanks,

Joel

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