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Document number: N3781

Date: 2013-09-25

Single-Quotation-Mark as a Digit Separator

by Lawrence Crowl, Richard Smith, Jeff Snyder, Daveed Vandevoorde

Excerpt:

This paper describes wording changes to implement the use of a single quote (‘) as a digit
separator. It is very similar to the wording changes proposed in N3448, but includes some small
corrections and an addition to Appendix C.

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[Example: ... The literals 1048576, 1'048'576, 0X100000, 0x10'0000, and 0'004'000'000 all have the same value. — end example] ...

[Example: The literals 1.602'176'565e-19 and 1.602176565e-19 have the same value. — end example]