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From: mhx@iae.nl (mhx)
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Subject: Re: FP number syntax
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 01:26:54 +0000
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 0:41:37 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:

> anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> <https://forth-standard.org/standard/double#subsection.8.3.1>
>
> Aha, thanks.  Similarly 8.3.2 for DPANS94.  Oddly, in gforth, "123.45"
> pushes 12345 0.  I can understand "123." is a number (123) followed by a
> decimal point, but I'd expect the 45 to either be invalid or another
> number, giving 123 0 45.

There is a USER variable, DPL, that tracks the Location of the Decimal
Point.
The intention can therefore be reconstructed.

-marcel