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Hexadecimal floating-point literals #2863

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simonbyrne opened this issue Apr 14, 2013 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2925
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Hexadecimal floating-point literals #2863

simonbyrne opened this issue Apr 14, 2013 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2925

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e.g. 0x1.8p3 == 12.0

They're in the IEEE-754 and C99 standards, so probably good to have.
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Just so you know,

julia> parsefloat("0x1.8p3")
12.0

So basically this is a parser issue.

andrioni added a commit to andrioni/julia that referenced this issue Apr 24, 2013
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Add hexadecimal float literals (JuliaLang#2863)
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Add hexadecimal float literals (closes #2863) andrioni/julia
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