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diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 6a6b756fbe5..2810f686eb7 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -853,9 +853,7 @@ 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 conversion only works in base ten; we have not implemented other 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. +work and does not seem useful. 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 |