Re: Trivial typo in 5.4.0 manual

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Ma., 24 Sep. 2018 om 00:27 het Pierpaolo Bernardi
<olopierpa@gmail.com> geskryf:
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 1:20 AM Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > It’s very trivial, but I just noticed this is section 8.1 of the 5.4.0 work2 reference manual:
> >
> > "the new implementation preserves the implicit type of the numeral in the string”
> >
> > This should probably be “number” .. “numeral” refers to a single digit (e.g. “seven” or ‘7” or “Roman numeral"), not an entire number.
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> A number is an abstract mathematical concept.
>
> A numeral is a representation of a number in some agreed upon
> representation system (Roman, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Goedel, ...)
>
> In non-technical speech, people often say "number" when they actually
> mean "numeral".  This use is informal, and out of place in a technical
> spec.

+1