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diff --git a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc index 61743f7906..ea3c3d8135 100644 --- a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc +++ b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc @@ -43,13 +43,17 @@ Floating point numbers may be written as follows: These numbers have the same value, 12.34. You may use underscores in floating point numbers as well. -You can also write numbers in hexadecimal, octal or binary formats. For +You can use a special prefix to write numbers in decimal, hexadecimal, octal +or binary formats. For decimal numbers use a prefix of <tt>0d</tt>, for hexadecimal numbers use a prefix of <tt>0x</tt>, for octal numbers use a prefix of <tt>0</tt> or <tt>0o</tt>, for binary numbers use a prefix of <tt>0b</tt>. The alphabetic component of the number is not case-sensitive. Examples: + 0d170 + 0D170 + 0xaa 0xAa 0xAA |