[om] OM Floats (XML Representation)

[David Carlisle]

Richard Fateman wrote
> Oh, you could also specify a radix, if you wanted to be "more
> general".

OpenMath already contains CDs to encode floating point numbers in this
way, as a structure just using integers specifying radix, precision,
etc. (Mainly due to James)

However it has always had a direct representation of IEEE doubles in
addition to this, the question is just a technical one about how best to
specify that representation using XML schema, not a suggestion to
greatly change or drop the OpenMath representation of these objects.

David

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