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What is this format specifier?
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Its not confusion to me, I get what it is. Its the style of answer. Its like if you see a dog, ask what it is and someone answers Canis lupus familiaris.
There's no grokking that. You either know or you don't. If they're asking what .2f then lots of answers here do a good job describing that it formats the value to two decimal places. We can all do something with that at any level.
Saying its a crombopulater sub cablator is much harder to process. It just seems like an answer thats likely to make the person to have to ask more questions or frustrated
...and gives you a link to the Wikipedia page about dogs.
It's not a good answer in the sense that they did not do the work of copying and rephrasing the content of the website they linked, you have to do some of the work yourself. But it's a very thorough answer that gives you all the information you need about formatting. Including examples of pretty much exactly the question OP asked.
I'm not looking for meta level criticism of this style of advice, I'm trying to ask OP what was confusing on this page and help them learn how to read this page specifically. I'm not saying OP should be able to understand this page. I'm not saying this style of advice is acceptable or not.
Edit: Nevermind, I thought OP posted that comment.