Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@continuent.com> writes:
> To represent binary IEEE754's floats (4 bytes) without loss the
> maximum required number of base10 digits is 9. For IEEE754's doubles
> (8 bytes) it's 17. I don't know what is the "average" required number
> of digits.
Sorry, forgot to precise: that's just for the fraction. You need to
add representations for sign and exponent.