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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-12-31 11:22:53 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-12-31 11:24:14 +0100
commitbad0510aea5e4dfbe7cec2deb3c4926701c6323c (patch)
tree3291e62680d213273f0a486c29b88f719fd52bdf
parenteef4fff7435bddc66ca3e7bf72ec3aa6365639ee (diff)
downloadcoreutils-bad0510aea5e4dfbe7cec2deb3c4926701c6323c.tar.xz
doc: Put braces around multi-digit exponents.
Reported by Darrel Francis.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--THANKS1
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi30
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2076424aa..63249f83a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-12-31 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ * doc/coreutils.texi (Block size): Put braces around multi-digit
+ exponents. Reported by Darrel Francis.
+
2007-12-30 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add gnome-256color.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index f91c2625e..e4658a075 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ Daniel Bergstrom noa@melody.se
Daniel P. Berrangé berrange@redhat.com
Dániel Varga danielv@axelero.hu
Danny Levinson danny.levinson@overture.com
+Darrel Francis d.francis@cheerful.com
Darren Salt ds@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk
Dave Beckett dajobe@dajobe.org
David Alan Gilbert gilbertd@treblig.org
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 01c2edbe7..d5376c33a 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ kilobyte: @math{10^3 = 1000}.
@itemx K
@itemx KiB
@cindex kibibyte, definition of
-kibibyte: @math{2^10 = 1024}. @samp{K} is special: the SI prefix is
+kibibyte: @math{2^{10} = 1024}. @samp{K} is special: the SI prefix is
@samp{k} and the IEC 60027-2 prefix is @samp{Ki}, but tradition and
@acronym{POSIX} use @samp{k} to mean @samp{KiB}.
@item MB
@@ -870,48 +870,48 @@ megabyte: @math{10^6 = 1,000,000}.
@item M
@itemx MiB
@cindex mebibyte, definition of
-mebibyte: @math{2^20 = 1,048,576}.
+mebibyte: @math{2^{20} = 1,048,576}.
@item GB
@cindex gigabyte, definition of
gigabyte: @math{10^9 = 1,000,000,000}.
@item G
@itemx GiB
@cindex gibibyte, definition of
-gibibyte: @math{2^30 = 1,073,741,824}.
+gibibyte: @math{2^{30} = 1,073,741,824}.
@item TB
@cindex terabyte, definition of
-terabyte: @math{10^12 = 1,000,000,000,000}.
+terabyte: @math{10^{12} = 1,000,000,000,000}.
@item T
@itemx TiB
@cindex tebibyte, definition of
-tebibyte: @math{2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776}.
+tebibyte: @math{2^{40} = 1,099,511,627,776}.
@item PB
@cindex petabyte, definition of
-petabyte: @math{10^15 = 1,000,000,000,000,000}.
+petabyte: @math{10^{15} = 1,000,000,000,000,000}.
@item P
@itemx PiB
@cindex pebibyte, definition of
-pebibyte: @math{2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624}.
+pebibyte: @math{2^{50} = 1,125,899,906,842,624}.
@item EB
@cindex exabyte, definition of
-exabyte: @math{10^18 = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000}.
+exabyte: @math{10^{18} = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000}.
@item E
@itemx EiB
@cindex exbibyte, definition of
-exbibyte: @math{2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976}.
+exbibyte: @math{2^{60} = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976}.
@item ZB
@cindex zettabyte, definition of
-zettabyte: @math{10^21 = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000}
+zettabyte: @math{10^{21} = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000}
@item Z
@itemx ZiB
-@math{2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424}.
+@math{2^{70} = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424}.
(@samp{Zi} is a @acronym{GNU} extension to IEC 60027-2.)
@item YB
@cindex yottabyte, definition of
-yottabyte: @math{10^24 = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000}.
+yottabyte: @math{10^{24} = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000}.
@item Y
@itemx YiB
-@math{2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176}.
+@math{2^{80} = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176}.
(@samp{Yi} is a @acronym{GNU} extension to IEC 60027-2.)
@end table
@@ -14190,9 +14190,9 @@ To generate octal output, use the printf @code{%o} format instead
of @code{%x}.
On most systems, seq can produce whole-number output for values up to
-at least @code{2^53}. Larger integers are approximated. The details
+at least @math{2^{53}}. Larger integers are approximated. The details
differ depending on your floating-point implementation, but a common
-case is that @command{seq} works with integers through @code{2^64},
+case is that @command{seq} works with integers through @math{2^{64}},
and larger integers may not be numerically correct:
@example