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Bug 17033 - "If there is no E, then the exponent is treated as zero." uh no, it should be treated as one.
Summary: "If there is no E, then the exponent is treated as zero." uh no, it should be...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-05-10 21:45 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:48 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-05-10 21:45:19 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#floating-point-numbers
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#floating-point-numbers

Comment:
"If there is no E, then the exponent is treated as zero." uh no, it should be
treated as one.

Posted from: 2620:0:1000:147d:388f:a2:7dde:95bc by ian@hixie.ch
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1130.1 Safari/536.11
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2012-05-14 16:37:37 UTC 
Uh, no, "7.1" is 7.1 * 10^0, not 7.1 * 10^1 = 71.