RE: MS-FO-LC1-012: What does 2**Emin mean?

I don't think we should use a non-XPath operator "**" and expect people to
guess what it means.
 
Michael Kay

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashok Malhotra [mailto:ashokma@microsoft.com] 
Sent: 19 June 2003 16:27
To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: Re: MS-FO-LC1-012: What does 2**Emin mean?



Thanks, Michael. You asked:

> Section 6.2 uses 2**Emin. What does this mean? Does this mean 2 to the

> power of the smallest possible exponent? 

Following text contains the phrase:

"where Emin is the smallest possible xs:float or xs:double exponent."

I think this addresses your concern.

All the best, Ashok