On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM Jonathan Wakely <cxx@kayari.org> wrote:

See https://wg21.link/p1841 for a stalled proposal to replace numeric_limits with something better.

Very informative, thank you. For example I had no idea about that this was discussed:

Poll: max_digits10 should deviate from numeric_limits and yields digits10_v + 1.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM Simon Kraemer <sikraemer@gmail.com> wrote:

I found this post on Stackoverflow that goes into the history of std::numeric_limits and why it is as it is.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/47521516/4181011

Ah so it is indeed weird, I was not imagining things. :) Thank you so much for your help, and in unlikely case he is reading this thanks to Dietmar for writing on a prestandardization history of C++.