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Furthermore – similar to the VB discussion above – many programming languages allow floating point numbers to be in the form <code>1.23e15</code> which is currently handled by very few, if any, examples. In a similar vein, hexadecimal, octal or binary numeric literals – in C and languages that follow its conventions closely, <code>09</code> would ''not'' be a valid numeric literal. —[[User:Hypftier|Johannes Rössel]] 17:56, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
:I would stick to the numeric literals that you could write in your source and get accepted as a number. If your compiler or interpreter doesn't accept locale-aware things like extra dots or commas then I'd say you were fine, (but what do I know).
:I guess examples should note if there are types of numeric literals of their language that the routines ''don't'' accept, but I think that some examples were written to implement something seen in other examples rather than with an idea to cover all the numeric literal forms the language allows. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 02:44, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
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