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Would be cool to see a histogram of all of the web's textual representation of floats based on character length.

In other words-- what percentage of outstanding publicly-accessible data sets require an implementation of strod which can allocate memory on the heap?

Even this article, which talks about millions of digits, could be parsed just fine with a strod that's limited to 64 characters.

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