integers, as it does when native floating point numbers are involved.
The only implication of the term "native" on integers is that the limits for
the maximal and the minimal supported true integral quantities are close to
-powers of 2. However, for "native" floats have a most fundamental
+powers of 2. However, "native" floats have a most fundamental
restriction: they may represent only those numbers which have a relatively
"short" representation when converted to a binary fraction. For example,
-0.9 cannot be respresented by a native float, since the binary fraction
+0.9 cannot be represented by a native float, since the binary fraction
for 0.9 is infinite:
binary0.1110011001100...
is no practical limit for the exponent or number of decimal digits for these
numbers. (But realize that what we are discussing the rules for just the
I<storage> of these numbers. The fact that you can store such "large" numbers
-does not mean that that the I<operations> over these numbers will use all
+does not mean that the I<operations> over these numbers will use all
of the significant digits.
See L<"Numeric operators and numeric conversions"> for details.)