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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:02:23 -0800
From: Ralph Gesler <rgesler AT pacificnet DOT net>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with floats
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> Your Name (email AT domain DOT com) wrote:
> : [minor quibble: should a period used to represent the numbers after the
> : ones digit be called a 'decimal' point if it's used in a non-decimal
> : number system?]
> 
> In a binary number system, isn't it a binary point? And in base 5,
> wouldn't it be a pential point?!!!
> 
> Right,
> 
>                                                         MartinS

The period (or comma in some parts of the world) separating the integral
and fractional parts of a number is called the _radix_ point in
mathematics.

Ralph Gesler