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diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 04e11fec617..24218a9cf15 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -593,9 +593,8 @@ are used primarily for making help messages. @cindex integer to string @cindex integer to decimal This function returns a string consisting of the printed base-ten -representation of @var{number}, which may be an integer or a floating -point number. The returned value starts with a minus sign if the argument is -negative. +representation of @var{number}. The returned value starts with a +minus sign if the argument is negative. @example (number-to-string 256) @@ -619,12 +618,12 @@ See also the function @code{format} in @ref{Formatting Strings}. This function returns the numeric value of the characters in @var{string}. If @var{base} is non-@code{nil}, it must be an integer between 2 and 16 (inclusive), and integers are converted in that base. -If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. Floating point +If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. Floating-point conversion only works in base ten; we have not implemented other -radices for floating point numbers, because that would be much more +radices for floating-point numbers, because that would be much more work and does not seem useful. If @var{string} looks like an integer but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer, -@code{string-to-number} returns a floating point result. +@code{string-to-number} returns a floating-point result. The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number in @@ -787,15 +786,15 @@ integer. @samp{%x} uses lower case and @samp{%X} uses upper case. Replace the specification with the character which is the value given. @item %e -Replace the specification with the exponential notation for a floating -point number. +Replace the specification with the exponential notation for a +floating-point number. @item %f -Replace the specification with the decimal-point notation for a floating -point number. +Replace the specification with the decimal-point notation for a +floating-point number. @item %g -Replace the specification with notation for a floating point number, +Replace the specification with notation for a floating-point number, using either exponential notation or decimal-point notation, whichever is shorter. |