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Diffstat (limited to 'src/fmt/doc.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/fmt/doc.go | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/fmt/doc.go b/src/fmt/doc.go index 4eea48eb6b..fefc10c19d 100644 --- a/src/fmt/doc.go +++ b/src/fmt/doc.go @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ For compound objects, the elements are printed using these rules, recursively, laid out like this: struct: {field0 field1 ...} - array, slice: [elem0 elem1 ...] + array, slice: [elem0 elem1 ...] maps: map[key1:value1 key2:value2] pointer to above: &{}, &[], &map[] @@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ For floating-point values, width sets the minimum width of the field and precision sets the number of places after the decimal, if appropriate, - except that for %g/%G it sets the total number of digits. For example, - given 123.45 the format %6.2f prints 123.45 while %.4g prints 123.5. - The default precision for %e and %f is 6; for %g it is the smallest - number of digits necessary to identify the value uniquely. + except that for %g/%G precision sets the total number of significant + digits. For example, given 12.345 the format %6.3f prints 12.345 while + %.3g prints 12.3. The default precision for %e and %f is 6; for %g it + is the smallest number of digits necessary to identify the value uniquely. For complex numbers, the width and precision apply to the two components independently and the result is parenthesized, so %f applied |