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 -- http://www.ousia.tk