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Document the 16-17 significant digit float quirk to avoid future confusion - #112
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…usion The Wolfram kernel reads reals with at most 17 significant digits as machine reals, so e.g. W`4.3000000000000001` becomes 4.3, while 18 digits give a WReal. Add a README section explaining this and the precision-mark workaround, add tests for the 16/17/18-digit cases (the 17-digit case marked @test_broken), and ignore Emacs autosave files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Wolfram kernel reads reals with at most 17 significant digits as machine reals, so e.g. W
4.3000000000000001becomes 4.3, while 18 digits give a WReal. Added a README section explaining this and the precision-mark workaround, added tests for the 16/17/18-digit cases (the 17-digit case marked @test_broken for future explorers).No change of functionality.