RosettaCodeData/Task/Literals-Floating-point/ALGOL-68/literals-floating-point.alg
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# floating point literals are called REAL denotations in Algol 68 #
# They have the following forms: #
# 1: a digit sequence followed by "." followed by a digit sequence #
# 2: a "." followed by a digit sequence #
# 3: forms 1 or 2 followed by "e" followed by an optional sign #
# followed by a digit sequence #
# 4: a digit sequence follows by "e" followed by an optional sign #
# followed by a digit sequence #
# #
# The "e" indicates the following optionally-signed digit sequence is #
# the exponent of the literal. #
# If the implementation allows, a "times ten to the power symbol" #
# can be used to replace "e" - e.g. a subscript "10" character #
# #
# spaces can appear anywhere in the denotation #
# Examples: #
REAL r;
r := 1.234;
r := .987;
r := 4.2e-9;
r := .4e+23;
r := 1e10;
r := 3.142e-23;
r := 1 234 567 . 9 e - 4;