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

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Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc8) now available
From: Gé Weijers <ge@...>
Date: 2011年12月15日 16:11:55 -0800

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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Gé

References:
- [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc8) now available, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc8) now available, Tymur Gubayev
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc8) now available, Daurnimator

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