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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 73971c6a6..c8ba53c78 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3767,8 +3767,8 @@ the final result, after the throwing away.)) @opindex --sort @cindex general numeric sort @vindex LC_NUMERIC -Sort numerically, using the standard C function @code{strtod} to convert -a prefix of each line to a double-precision floating point number. +Sort numerically, using the standard C function @code{strtold} to convert +a prefix of each line to a long double-precision floating point number. This allows floating point numbers to be specified in scientific notation, like @code{1.0e-34} and @code{10e100}. The @env{LC_NUMERIC} locale determines the decimal-point character. |