From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: integer displayed as .0 float in Lua-5.3
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:33:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3c76412-b897-f5da-47a1-e938cc2860b5@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A997B15F-4E6B-4108-B36C-991B2CD66CB5@telia.com>
On 08/09/2018 10:20 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>> On 9 Aug 2018, at 21:20, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> My background is in humanities and I don’t understand the exponent for
>> being a float ("10²" contains an exponent
>> [https://www.m-w.com/dictionary/exponent], but I would say is an integer
>> in all possible worlds [or all the worlds I know ]).
>
> It may refer to a floating point number syntax as in C++ [1], where the
> three cases top there say that there must be a point '.' preceded or
> followed by at least one digit, or at least one digit followed by an
> exponent starting with 'e' or 'E'.
Many thanks for your explanation, Hans.
I thought there should be some kind of restriction when referring to the
exponent, but this is why technical explanations aren’t always very
clear. I mean, they have too many restrictions attached to them.
Pablo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-11 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-09 18:02 Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-09 18:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2018-08-09 19:20 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-09 19:34 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-09 20:00 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-09 20:16 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-11 9:29 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-11 17:55 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-12 14:44 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2018-08-09 20:25 ` Hans Hagen
2018-08-11 10:05 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-09 20:20 ` Hans Åberg
2018-08-11 9:33 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2018-08-11 12:21 ` Hans Åberg
2018-08-12 7:49 ` Hans Hagen
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