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diff --git a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst index 8b8f4daa..d1d578ed 100644 --- a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst +++ b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ Units and Globally Available Variables Ether Units =========== -A literal number can take a suffix of ``wei``, ``finney``, ``szabo`` or ``ether`` to convert between the subdenominations of Ether, where Ether currency numbers without a postfix are assumed to be "wei", e.g. ``2 ether == 2000 finney`` evaluates to ``true``. +A literal number can take a suffix of ``wei``, ``finney``, ``szabo`` or ``ether`` to convert between the subdenominations of Ether, where Ether currency numbers without a postfix are assumed to be Wei, e.g. ``2 ether == 2000 finney`` evaluates to ``true``. .. index:: time, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years Time Units ========== -Suffixes of ``seconds``, ``minutes``, ``hours``, ``days``, ``weeks`` and +Suffixes like ``seconds``, ``minutes``, ``hours``, ``days``, ``weeks`` and ``years`` after literal numbers can be used to convert between units of time where seconds are the base unit and units are considered naively in the following way: @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Mathematical and Cryptographic Functions ``ripemd160(...) returns (bytes20)``: compute RIPEMD-160 hash of the (tightly packed) arguments ``ecrecover(bytes32 hash, uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) returns (address)``: - recover the address associated with the public key from elliptic curve signature + recover the address associated with the public key from elliptic curve signature or return zero on error In the above, "tightly packed" means that the arguments are concatenated without padding. This means that the following are all identical:: |