# EEP 75: based floating point literals

**URL:** <https://erlangforums.com/t/eep-75-based-floating-point-literals/4388>\
**Category:** Proposals: RFC\
**Tags:** erlang-otp, eep\
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/eep-75-based-floating-point-literals/4388 "2025-01-14T18:55:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/eep-75-based-floating-point-literals/4388/1 "2025-01-14T18:55:51Z")

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Adds floating point literals using other bases than ten, such as 16 or 2, for exact text representation, as also found in Ada and C99/C++17.

[https://github.com/erlang/eep/pull/71](https://github.com/erlang/eep/pull/71)