problem with parsing InputForm scientific notation (eg. 3.`*^-7)
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- Subject: [mg80576] problem with parsing InputForm scientific notation (eg. 3.`*^-7)
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:11:03 -0400 (EDT)
Can anyone confirm this report? Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter "3.`*^-7" (without quotation marks) into an Input cell and evaluate it. 2. Go back to the Input cell, put your cursor at the beginning and enter "RealDigits[" 3. Hit the End key, type "]" and then re-evaluate the cell, which by now reads "RealDigits[3.`*^-7]", but don't enter that directly. I have encountered other errors where InputForm messes up the syntax checker, but I haven't been able to make a small reproducible example like this one. Version 6.0.1 on MS Windows XP SP2 -- http://chris.chiasson.name/