Re: Bug: Final zero after decimal point is stripped when inline code evaluated

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

On 5/6/24 12:42 PM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 06/05/2024 19:44, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>>> Charles Millar writes:
>>>> #+NAME: TABLE2
>>>> |22578.60|
>>>>
>>>> src_latex[:var printthis=TABLE2[-1,-1] :eval yes :results replace
>>>> :exports results]{\num{printthis}} {{{results(@@latex:\num{22578.6}@@)}}}
>>>
>>> This is expected. When you assign :var, Org mode reads the table data,
>>> converting it to number.
>>
>> After discussion of ob-shell related issues I am in doubts if org-babel
>> should eagerly convert strings to numbers. Perhaps numbers should be
>> recognized for specific backends only (or vice versa conversion should
>> be suppressed for specific backends).
> 
> Maybe. But changing the current behavior is not trivial - a lot of code
> relies upon it implicitly. If anyone wants to work on more
> fine-grained control over Org markup -> Elisp conversion, feel free.
> 
Thanks for the feedback. For the moment I will create separate tables 
that have the the desired data in quotes.

I appreciate that mathematically a trailing zero or zeros may be 
non-significant; however, in my use case, i.e. correct format in a text, 
they are necessary. Another example, in addition to my Dollars and cents 
scenario, may be a table that that has been created by using append, and 
the table appears as follows because trailing zeros were disregarded.

This 1.222
that 3.444
it   5.6
last 7.691

Question arises - is the correct number reported on line "it" 5.600 or 
has some editing omitted the last two decimal places?

As an aside, I am not a coder; however I was playing around in the 
scratch butter, and it appears to me that this issue may run deeper that 
Org Mode, for instance:

(number-to-string 5.000)

evaluates to "5.0"

Furthermore, and more closely related to the topic,

(setq toconvert 5.000)
(number-to-string toconvert)

evaluates to "5".

Just my 0.020 cents

Charlie Millar