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Scientific Literals ("M" Reference)

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Scientific literals are used to write floating-point or inexact number values. The type of a scientific literal defaults to the smallest standard library type that can contain the value, starting with Single.

Literal Format

Scientific literals take the following format.

ScientificLiteral:
DecimalLiteral  e  Sign(optional)  DecimalDigit  DecimalDigits(optional)
DecimalLiteral  E  Sign(optional)  DecimalDigit  DecimalDigits(optional)
Sign: one of
+  -

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