Re: string.format(""%x",5.5)

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Subject: Re: string.format(""%x",5.5)
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:36:32 -0200

> The Lua 5.2 change document makes a suggestion that Lua 5.2 has "support for hexadecimal floats."
> 
>      local ok, v = pcall(string.format," --[[ 0x%x ]]",5.5)

Try %a instead of 0x%x. Try also

	a=0x1.6p+2 ; print(a)

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References:
- string.format(""%x",5.5), Ernest Ewert

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