From b7486b9d4e8932d9d7806bac99b6a19a7b24a64b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: i <isomorphisms@sdf.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:16:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] decimal

a decimal number had better have base 10!
---
 input/chapter01/chapter01.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/input/chapter01/chapter01.xml b/input/chapter01/chapter01.xml
index 252a2cdb..84edc733 100644
--- a/input/chapter01/chapter01.xml
+++ b/input/chapter01/chapter01.xml
@@ -1878,7 +1878,7 @@
 	available bits to represent the sign, mantissa and exponent of
 	a decimal number.  A decimal number is represented by
 	<computeroutput>sign &#xD7; significand &#xD7;
-	2^<superscript>exponent</superscript></computeroutput>.</para>
+	10^<superscript>exponent</superscript></computeroutput>.</para>
         <para>The sign bit equates to either
 	<computeroutput>1</computeroutput> or
 	<computeroutput>-1</computeroutput>.  Since we are working in