leanprover / leanprover/reference-manual

Document underscore separators in numeric literals

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Description

What question should the reference manual answer?

https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/pull/6204 adds underscores as separators for numeric literals. Where can they be used?

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read pull request #6204 to understand the underscore-separator change, then find the relevant numeric-literal sections in the reference manual. Update the manual to answer where separators can be used, with the completed documentation reflecting the behavior introduced by that pull request.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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