Also scientific notation can take complex numbers but it ignores the imaginary
part which means that the imaginary part can be non integers.
2e4j1.4
20000j1.4
Cheers, bob
> On Nov 8, 2021, at 04:09, 'Mike Day' via Programming
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Also, surely the integer restriction is consistent with the “scientific
> notation” that’s so pervasive in science and in computer languages.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 8 Nov 2021, at 11:47, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Conceptually, 2e3.4 would be 2 * 10^3.4 or approximately 5023.77
>>
>> But, the code path for handling the part on the right of the 'e'
>> currently only handles integer values.
>>
>> So when you ask "why", I guess you are asking "why not allow any
>> values representable by the constant format".
>>
>> And, I think the reason there is that 2e3.4 is more likely to be a
>> typographical error than an intentional use of the notation. These
>> language choices are somewhat heuristical, of course, but try thinking
>> of it this way:
>>
>> "If this were possible, what useful problems would it help solve?"
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Raul
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:17 AM Elijah Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2x3.4
>>> 59.9282
>>> 2p3.4
>>> 98.0256
>>> 2e3.4
>>> |ill-formed number
>>> | 2e3.4
>>> | ^
>>>
>>> Whyn't?
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