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Use

A floating point number ( floating_point_literal) is a numeric literal that specifies a number as a floating point number.

Structure
				
<floating_point_literal>::=
  <mantissa>E<exponent>
| <mantissa>e<exponent>

<mantissa>::=
  <fixed_point_literal>

<exponent>::=
  [<sign>][[<digit>]<digit>]<digit>

<sign>::=
  +
| -

<digit>::=
  0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
Example

1e160

-765E-04

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