On 5/2/2013 9:55 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
The code is done LOL. Nope, no options. What you get is what you get.
Customers are happy with it. I now have a need to be able to turn it
OFF (not customer unhappiness; machine parsing: machines are happier
with 7867543225 than with 7.86G). So now I need a name for it and for
its negation.

Writing an integer in full is referred to as canonical form, thus the shortened format would be a non-canonical form. You probably want something shorter, or easier for the non-specialist to understand.


Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, Vermont

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