To whom it may concern, I am having difficulty understanding a sentence in the PRINTF(3) man page's explanation of the 'a' and 'A' conversion specifiers, more specifically it is the following sentence: > The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for nonnormalized numbers, and nonzero but other‐wise unspecified for normalized numbers. My confusion arises due to the fact that the two posible cases are described with the same outcome, instead of specifying the outcome is always the case. This is why I suspect that this was a case of miswriting. Did this sentence mean to state that the digit before the decimal point is unspecified if the number is normalized, otherwise it is specified? I pose this because the digit cannot be deduced if the number is not normalized but it can be deduced if the number is normalized (by definition). I am not familliar with the details since I am currently trying to learn them, so please let me know if something else was meant by the sentence in question. Thank you for your time, Rohit Saily
