perlnumber

perlnumber

NAME

perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl

SYNOPSIS

$n = 1234;		    # decimal integer
$n = 0b1110011;	    # binary integer
$n = 01234;		    # octal integer
$n = 0x1234;	    # hexadecimal integer
$n = 12.34e-56;	    # exponential notation
$n = "-12.34e56";	    # number specified as a string
$n = "1234";	    # number specified as a string

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