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PARSE-NUMBER is a library of functions which accept an arbitrary
string and attempt to parse it, if possible into one of the standard
Common Lisp number types without using the reader, or else signal an
error of type INVALID-NUMBER

* Functions

 PARSE-NUMBER (string &key start end radix)

 PARSE-REAL-NUMBER (string &key start end radix)

 PARSE-POSITIVE-REAL-NUMBER (string &key start end radix)

* Error conditions

 INVALID-NUMBER (inherits PARSE-ERROR)

** Accessors

 INVALID-NUMBER-VALUE
 INVALID-NUMBER-REASON