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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2014-03-28 06:39:38 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2014-03-28 10:06:47 +0100
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Correct description of the REAL type
REAL is implemented, sort of. But real numbers must be given in a string.
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@@ -562,20 +562,18 @@ T6value3 = white
<section>
<marker id="REAL"></marker>
<title>REAL</title>
- <p>In this version reals are not implemented. When they are,
- the following
- ASN.1 type is used:</p>
+ <p>The following ASN.1 type is used for real numbers:</p>
<pre>
R1 ::= REAL
</pre>
- <p>Can be assigned a value in Erlang as:</p>
+ <p>It can be assigned a value in Erlang as:</p>
<pre>
-R1value1 = 2.14,
+R1value1 = "2.14",
R1value2 = {256,10,-2},
</pre>
<p>In the last line note that the tuple {256,10,-2} is the real number
2.56 in a special notation, which will encode faster than simply
- stating the number as 2.56. The arity three tuple is
+ stating the number as <c>"2.56"</c>. The arity three tuple is
<c>{Mantissa,Base,Exponent}</c> i.e. Mantissa * Base^Exponent.</p>
</section>