Well yes I was *thinking* of using curl and asking wolfram alpha...
for example, but perhaps someone can do that task for me?  Never  
enough time to do all this...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1E2
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.0e%2B2
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.0e-2
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1E-2

On 2009-09-24, at 2:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Can we add some more (in the Pharo's spirit of getting at a better  
> Smalltalk):
>
> '1.0e+2' "now returns 1.0 although for simmetry should return 100.0"
>
> '1E2'    "now returns 1, however a lot of applications (like
> spreadsheets, Fortran printouts) when saving to text use the capital
> letter for the exponential part".
>
> By the same reason:
>
> '1.0E2'
>
> '1E-2'
>
> '1E+2'
>
>
> Em 24/09/2009 17:36, John M McIntosh <  
> [email protected] > escreveu:
>
>
>> Ok, well I'm going to go away and build a test suite to check for all
>> combos of
>> '.'
>> '1.'
>> '1.2'
>> '.e'
>> '1.e'
>> '1.2e'
>> '1.2e3'
>> '-1.e'
>> '-1.2e-3'
>>
>> so we can at least agree on what a valid number is.
>>
>>
>> On 2009-09-24, at 6:57 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>> SqNumberParser>>fail
>>> failBlock isNil ifFalse: [^failBlock value].
>>> self error: 'Reading a number failed'
>>>
>
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