diff --git a/src/etc/test-float-parse/runtests.py b/src/etc/test-float-parse/runtests.py
index 27af63a5876b..896d63b9f0a0 100644
--- a/src/etc/test-float-parse/runtests.py
+++ b/src/etc/test-float-parse/runtests.py
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ random non-exhaustive tests for covering everything else.
 
 The actual tests (generating decimal strings and feeding them to dec2flt) is
 performed by a set of stand-along rust programs. This script compiles, runs,
-and supervises them. In particular, the programs report the strings they
-generate and the floating point numbers they converted those strings to.
+and supervises them. The programs report the strings they generate and the
+floating point numbers they converted those strings to, and this script
+checks that the results are correct.
 
 You can run specific tests rather than all of them by giving their names
 (without .rs extension) as command line parameters.
@@ -64,9 +65,9 @@ If a test binary writes *anything at all* to stderr or exits with an
 exit code that's not 0, the test fails.
 The output on stdout is treated as (f64, f32, decimal) record, encoded thusly:
 
-- The first eight bytes are a binary64 (native endianness).
-- The following four bytes are a binary32 (native endianness).
-- Then the corresponding string input follows, in ASCII (no newline).
+- First, the bits of the f64 encoded as an ASCII hex string.
+- Second, the bits of the f32 encoded as an ASCII hex string.
+- Then the corresponding string input, in ASCII
 - The record is terminated with a newline.
 
 Incomplete records are an error. Not-a-Number bit patterns are invalid too.
diff --git a/src/libcore/num/dec2flt/algorithm.rs b/src/libcore/num/dec2flt/algorithm.rs
index 245f415de00b..e33c2814bf2f 100644
--- a/src/libcore/num/dec2flt/algorithm.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/num/dec2flt/algorithm.rs
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ fn algorithm_r<T: RawFloat>(f: &Big, e: i16, z0: T) -> T {
         // This is written a bit awkwardly because our bignums don't support
         // negative numbers, so we use the absolute value + sign information.
         // The multiplication with m_digits can't overflow. If `x` or `y` are large enough that
-        // we need to worry about overflow, then they are also large enough that`make_ratio` has
+        // we need to worry about overflow, then they are also large enough that `make_ratio` has
         // reduced the fraction by a factor of 2^64 or more.
         let (d2, d_negative) = if x >= y {
             // Don't need x any more, save a clone().