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Numeric Interpretation

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numexpr

Introduced in the 1977 ANSI M[UMPS] language standard.

This metalanguage symbol represents the numeric interpretation of an expression. In order to produce the numeric interpretation of an expression, first the expression is evaluated, and then reduced to its canonical numeric representation.

The reduction to a canonic numerical representation involves (colloquially) the removal of any redundant leading and trailing zeroes, the conversion of exponentionential notation to "mantissa only" notation, and the reduction of any leading plus (+) and minus (-) signs to at most one leading minus sign.

String value Numeric interpretation
123.456 123.456
"5 apples" 5
"+---+--+---+++-5.2300" -5.23
123.45E6 123450000
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