Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc8) now available

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:

The strange one for me is 0x1p1

... what is p?

These are binary/hex floating point literals, which are part of newer versions of C, as well as Lua 5.2.0.

> =0x1.8p1

3

> =string.format("%a", 77.5)

0x1.36p+6

To be read as (1 + 3/16 + 6/256) * 2^6

Gé

 

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