* Martin J. Dürst wrote: >The textual descriptions are in some cases quite precise, but in some >other cases, leave quite a bit of ambiguity. And stuff like "It may have >an exponent of ten, prefixed by e (U+0065) or E (U+0045) and optionally >+ (U+002B) or – (U+002D)." (in particlar the first clause of that >sentence) doesn't make much sense. If e.g. 1.2 has an exponent of 10, >it's going to be 6.1917 or so, not at all what this notation is usually >used for.
Apparently in `x²` 2 is "an exponent of" x. That does not make much sense to me either, but it does appear to be a common english idiom. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
