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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