12627 2011-05-06 17:15:50 +0000 Rename "real numbers" section to "floating-point numbers" 2011-08-04 05:06:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#real-numbers P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ayg ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 48193 0 contributor 2011-05-06 17:15:50 +0000 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?) Posted from: 68.175.61.233 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.16 Safari/534.30 52049 1 ian 2011-08-03 00:11:56 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 52050 2 contributor 2011-08-03 00:13:08 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6356. Check-in comment: consistency http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6355&to=6356 53044 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:06:12 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1