Re: Numeric literals, take 3

"Luke Palmer" <[email protected]> wrote

> > This notation is designed to let you write very large or
> > very small numbers efficiently. The left portion of the
> > C<e> is the coefficient, and the right is the exponent,
> > so a number of the form C<C.CCCeXX> is actually intepreted
> > as C<C.CCC * 10**XX>.
>
> Your "coefficient" is usually referred to as the mantissa.  But it's
> clear either way.

Technically, the mantissa is the part of the coefficient that
comes after the point.


Dave.