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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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