Bill Allombert on Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:51:04 +0200


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Re: Support of binary and hexadecimal integers in PARI/GP


On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 07:09:05PM +0300, Vasili Burdo wrote:
> I also thinking about "visual delimiters" implementation for large
> numbers, like it was
> defined in new C++ standard. For example, a number 1000000 may be delimited like
> this: 1'000'000. However, lexing ticks may be difficult, so I'd prefer to use
> underscore for delimiter: 1_000_000.
> What do you think about this? Will these "visual delimiters" be useful or not?

In GP you can write 
a = 1 000 000 
so there is no need for extra delimiters.

Cheers,
Bill.