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

I agree with Mike. We should not use ** because no semantics is
associated with it.

 

Michael

 

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[mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kay, Michael
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:46 AM
To: Ashok Malhotra; public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: 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