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From:
Philip Newton
Date:
July 10, 2001 00:51
Subject:
[DOC PATCH bleadperl] detypo Math::BigInt docs
Message ID:
20010710.095600@ID-11583.news.dfncis.de
This applies over the previous, bigger patch.

--- lib/Math/BigInt.pm.orig     Tue Jul 10 05:32:44 2001
+++ lib/Math/BigInt.pm  Tue Jul 10 07:42:55 2001
@@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@
   # Class->badd( Class->(1),2); => classname x (scalar), ref x, scalar y
   # Math::BigInt::badd(1,2);    => scalar x, scalar y
   # In the last case we check number of arguments to turn it silently into
-  # $class,1,2. (We can not take '1' as class ;o)
+  # $class,1,2. (We cannot take '1' as class ;o)
   # badd($class,1) is not supported (it should, eventually, try to add undef)
   # currently it tries 'Math::BigInt' + 1, which will not work.

@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@
       {
       # this causes a different low lib to take care...
       $CALC = $_[$i+1] || $CALC;
-      my $s = 2; $s = 1 if @a-$j < 2; # avoid "can not modify non-existant..."
+      my $s = 2; $s = 1 if @a-$j < 2; # avoid "cannot modify non-existant..."
       splice @a, $j, $s; $j -= $s;
       }
     }
@@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@
 things that need to be answered are marked with '?'.

 In the next paragraph follows a short description of terms used here (because
-these may differ from terms used by others people or documentation).
+these may differ from terms used by other people or documentation).

 During the rest of this document, the shortcuts A (for accuracy), P (for
 precision), F (fallback) and R (rounding mode) will be used.
@@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@
   * fdiv will calculate 1 more digit than required (determined by
     A, P or F), and, if F is not used, round the result
     (this will still fail in the case of a result like 0.12345000000001 with A
-    or P of 5, but this can not be helped - or can it?)
+    or P of 5, but this cannot be helped - or can it?)
   * Thus you can have the math done by on Math::Big* class in three modes:
     + never round (this is the default):
       This is done by setting A and P to undef. No math operation
@@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@

 You should neither care about nor depend on the internal representation; it
 might change without notice. Use only method calls like C<< $x->sign(); >>
-instead relying on the internal hash keys like in C<< $x->{sign}; >>.
+instead of relying on the internal hash keys like in C<< $x->{sign}; >>.

 =head2 mantissa(), exponent() and parts()

End of patch.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@gmx.net>

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