Re: Are decimal literals in the linux source?

From: Pascal Bourguignon (spam_at_thalassa.informatimago.com)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: 29 Nov 2003 19:11:20 +0100

greg_finch2@hotmail.com (Thinkit) writes:
> Uh, I don't think there's that many floats. You're giving me the same
> value as the one you got for all numbers. I'd be suprised to find
> many floats at all--perhaps in non-critical areas like instant
> statistics. Floats are a special case. With C99, we can put in
> hexadecimal floats. However, it usually won't be exact.

Oh, you're right, I should alias grep=egrep... There are only 3654 floats. 

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