BUGS LIST OF THE HPA LIBRARY

Version 0.8.2

[1]	Ok, this is not actually a bug but a weakness.
	The functions str2x() and atox() can return different results
	depending on their first argument is an ASCII string representing
	a number in scientific or in common format (for common format we
        mean the style [-]ddd[.ddddd] ). For instance,
	
	atox("-0.00103")    

		and   

	atox("-1.03e-3")

	return different results, even if -0.00103 and -1.03e-3 are
	actually the same number expressed in the common and scientific
	format respectively. However, the difference between the results
	returned in the two cases is very very small and it is only due
	to a different approximation in the last digits of the mantissa
	of the binary representation.  
	
	I do not plan to remove this bug from the future releases of the HPA
	library,  since it came out as result of the attempt to remove
	another more annoying bug.
 