Comment 2 for bug 876655

I'm not sure they are actually required to produce the same string.

My reasoning:

 "k is a scale factor that defaults to one (not zero)" -

So k is 1.

"If k is positive, then it must be strictly less than d+2; k significant digits are printed before the decimal point, and d-k+1 digits are printed after the decimal point."

Both "10.0e+1" and "1.0e+2" have 1 /significant/ digit before the decimal point.

d-k+1 = 1

Both have 1 digit after the decimal point, so unless there are other constraints which I missed, they both seem legal to me.

Can you lay out your reasoning as to why they should produce the same output?