Document scientific notation in integer literals

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Alex Beregszaszi 2017-03-15 13:16:16 +00:00
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@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ Octal literals do not exist in Solidity and leading zeros are invalid.
Decimal fraction literals are formed by a ``.`` with at least one number on
one side. Examples include ``1.``, ``.1`` and ``1.3``.
Scientific notation is also supported, where the base can have fractions, while the exponent cannot.
Examples include ``2e10``, ``-2e10``, ``2e-10``, ``2.5e1``.
Number literal expressions retain arbitrary precision until they are converted to a non-literal type (i.e. by
using them together with a non-literal expression).
This means that computations do not overflow and divisions do not truncate