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On 13/2/2025 01:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> I was idly speculating yesterday about letting the Ryu code print
> the division result, so that we get a variable number of digits.
> Realistically, that'd probably result in many cases in more digits
> than anybody wants, so it's not a serious proposal.  I'm cool with
> the fixed-two-digits approach to start with.
Okay, since no one else voted for the meaningful-numbers approach, I 
would say that fixed size is better than nothing. It may cover some of 
my practical cases, but unfortunately, not the most problematic ones.

-- 
regards, Andrei Lepikhov