X-Git-Url: https://git.ucc.asn.au/?p=ipdf%2Fsam.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=chapters%2FBackground%2FStandards%2FPrecision.tex;h=f533b98207ca978820032e0cfc85b7ad21e5ac1a;hp=2d2a3b4c224702e4ed24165a9bfd7714ee87dd70;hb=HEAD;hpb=a1ede3cfc3ef650aa0f7d3d06e78c6c6ef4cb0cc diff --git a/chapters/Background/Standards/Precision.tex b/chapters/Background/Standards/Precision.tex index 2d2a3b4..f533b98 100644 --- a/chapters/Background/Standards/Precision.tex +++ b/chapters/Background/Standards/Precision.tex @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ coordinate system transformations to provide the best possible precision and to %\begin{comment} \subsection{Javascript} We include Javascript here due to its relation with the SVG, HTML5 and PDF standards. -According to the EMCA-262 standard, ``The Number type has exactly 18437736874454810627 (that is, $2^64-^53+3$) values, +According to the EMCA-262 standard, ``The Number type has exactly 18437736874454810627 (that is, $2^{64}-2^{53}+3$) values, representing the double-precision 64-bit format IEEE 754 values as specified in the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic''\cite{ecma-262}. The Number type does differ slightly from IEEE-754 in that there is only a single valid representation of ``Not a Number'' (NaN). The EMCA-262 does not define an ``integer'' representation. %\end{comment}