From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T07:43:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Scanning a string for decimal numbers

Hi!

At Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:43:52 +0000, Antonio Cangiano wrote:
> a.scan /[-+]?[0-9]*\,?[0-9]+/

Shouldn't that rather be the following?

a.scan /[-+]?([1-9]\d*(\,[0-9]+)?)|(0(\,[0-9]+)?)/

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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Let the origin be the middle of the earth, p(x,r) be the probability
density for finding person x at distance r. Make sure that a permanent
solution of int_0^R p(x,r) dr < 1 exists for R being the instantanous
value of the distance between earth and mars.