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External Floating Point (Numeric)

An external floating point item is a character string which has the following format:
mantissa sign
+ or - (mandatory)
mantissa
A numeric value between 1 and 16 digits in length that may in addition contain either a period (.) to denote an explicit decimal point, or a V to denote an implicit decimal point. The decimal point symbol may appear in any position of the mantissa.
E
A constant that introduces the exponent.
exponent sign
+ or - (mandatory)
exponent
A two- or three-digit numeric value.
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