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- Subject: Re: Trivial typo in 5.4.0 manual
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 06:49:23 +0200
Op So., 23 Sep. 2018 om 01:20 het Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> geskryf:
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> It’s very trivial, but I just noticed this is section 8.1 of the 5.4.0 work2 reference manual:
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> "the new implementation preserves the implicit type of the numeral in the string”
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> This should probably be “number” .. “numeral” refers to a single digit (e.g. “seven” or ‘7” or “Roman numeral"), not an entire number.
"A Numeral is a figure, symbol, or group of figures or symbols
denoting a number." — Wikipedia
> —Tim
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