As I recall from high school, in scientific notation the whole part of a number expressed this way must be <=1 and <10.
Possibly a satisfactory enhancement would be to follow a stricter protocol for scientific notation... strings with a single "E" in them being a number if and only if they contain a decimal point after a single leading non-zero digit? 09114E715806 = text string 0.9114E715806 = text string 09.114E715806 = text string 9E715806 = text string (hm) 9.114E715806 = number You could be even stricter by requiring it be an uppercase "E" with a + or - sign following. 9.114e715806 = text string 9.114E715806 = text string 9.1E715806 = text string 91.14E+715806 = text string 9.114E+715806 = number If you are feeding the engine "9.114E+715806" it seems you couldn't really complain that it treats it as a number. Of course, who knows what is built-in to math routines on modern systems vs. what is written in Rev, and what havoc this could play with performance. If implementing this made everything 2% slower in all situations, would you rather special case it on your own with the & null workaround? "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ken- > > Sunday, April 8, 2007, 11:00:24 PM, you wrote: > >> Just my 2 cents, > > I see your two and raise you a nickle. You're absolutely right about > that. I went back and read it again. This looks quite buggy to me. IMO > the quotes should prevent dereferencing and evaluation as a number. > Yuck! > > Of possible interest is that the breakpoint is around 1.796931348E308: > > put "1.796931348E308" = "1.796931348E308" > returns true > put "1.796931349E308" = "1.796931349E308" > returns false > > -- > -Mark Wieder > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
