On 8/11/2018 11:33 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
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. small numbers can get expresses in nEm notation instead of 0.00000... which can also bite you (in context we intercept this when needed)
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