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- Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 17:15:50 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12627
Summary: Why is this section called "real numbers" when
everything inside the section uses the term
"floating-point" instead? You should use
"floating-point numbers" as the section name instead.
(This use of "real number" is an affront to
mathematics anyway. Wh
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rea
l-numbers
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org
Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#real-numbers
Comment:
Why is this section called "real numbers" when everything inside the section
uses the term "floating-point" instead? You should use "floating-point
numbers" as the section name instead. (This use of "real number" is an
affront to mathematics anyway. When was the last time you saw an irrational
floating-point?)
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