That, of course, is easier, but you have to realize that %f never uses scientific notation for its output (something I must have known at some time, but if you had asked, I would have had to google it), and that DBL_MAX has a lot of digits (it is about 1.8 × 10^308)
I think it is unfortunately that %f, the easiest to remember type field for floating point number, is used for this behavior. Most of the time, you’ll want to use %g, which uses scientific notation if it is shorter.
I guess linters should warn about bare %f without length fields.
