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authoruwe <uwe@NetBSD.org>2021-09-23 13:49:59 +0000
committeruwe <uwe@NetBSD.org>2021-09-23 13:49:59 +0000
commit4633b198863bb25d247a97a18b39df1492da65b2 (patch)
tree7e9b105e3fa3a6479302b96a83ea815e348fa397 /lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2
parent1523ca052b4e4b5d2572c3f3937679cf4b59968e (diff)
Spell the number of nanoseconds as 10^9.
10^9 is 1e9 (it's "e" that spells 10 here), not 10e9. The target audience of this man page is not likely to be very fluent in floating point, so avoid significand/exponent spelling and use the spelling that it is familiar with.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.25
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 b/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2
index 75b109e7cb7..be481332e13 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: timer_settime.2,v 1.9 2012/11/06 23:25:44 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: timer_settime.2,v 1.10 2021/09/23 13:49:59 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ function will fail if:
.It Bq Er EINVAL
A nanosecond field in the
.Ar tim
-structure specified a value less than zero or greater than or equal to 10e9.
+structure specified a value less than zero or greater than or equal
+to\~10^9.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr clock_gettime 2 ,