[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

[Noam Raphael]

Noam Raphael <noamraph at gmail.com> added the comment:

Do you mean msg58966?

I'm sorry, I still don't understand what's the problem with returning
f_15(x) if eval(f_15(x)) == x and otherwise returning f_17(x). You said
(msg69232) that you don't care if float(repr(x)) == x isn't
cross-platform. Obviously, the simple method will preserve eval(repr(x))
== x, no matter what rounding bugs are present on the platform.

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