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RE: Little incosistency in Euphoria 2.2

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Apr 26, 2001
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Hi,
this is not really an inconsistency problem, but still an annoyance.

The reason is that value() is interpreting "-45.6e-" as a number in written
in scientific notation. However it is a malformed number as it is expecting
an integer to follow the "e" character. For example "-45.6e3" is the
notation for -45.6 times 10 to the power 3, namely -45600. Also "-45.6e-3"
is the notation for -45.6 times 10 to the power -3, namely -0.0456.

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cheers,
Derek Parnell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rforno at tutopia.com [mailto:rforno at tutopia.com]
> Sent: Friday, 27 April 2001 6:20 AM
> To: EUforum
> Subject: Little incosistency in Euphoria 2.2
>
>
>
> While investigating the value() function and trying to mimic it, I
> discovered this little inconsistency:
> value("-45.6a-") gives {0,-45.6}
> but
> value("-45.6e-") gives {1,0}