Re: [Json] [jose] EcmaScript V6 - numbers

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Here's mine (converting from C library %g format to JS toString format):

class Float
  def cbor_diagnostic           # do a little bit of JSON.stringify
gaming (ECMA-262-2015, 7.1.12.1)
    a = abs
    if a < 1 && a >= 1e-6
      inspect.sub(/(\d)[.](\d+)e-(\d+)/) {"0.#{"0" * ($3.to_i -
1)}#{$1}#{$2}"}
    else
      inspect.sub(/(e[+-])0+/) {$1}
    end
  end
end

Apart from selecting the shortest representation, you need to select
details of the exponent format etc.  But the biggest problem with number
c14n in JSON is that the last digit may not be uniquely determined
(i.e., there are a number of shortest-form decimal numbers that map to
the same binary64).

Grüße, Carsten