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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________