Improve scalar literal format documentation (#7651)

* Improve scalar literal format documentation

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com>

* Address review comments

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com>

* Fixup

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com>

docs/querying/basics.md

@@ -55,10 +55,23 @@ Example:
 
 ### Float literals
 
-Scalar float values can be literally written as numbers of the form
-`[-](digits)[.(digits)]`.
+Scalar float values can be written as literal integer or floating-point numbers in the format (whitespace only included for better readability):
 
+    [-+]?(
+          [0-9]*\.?[0-9]+([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?
+        | 0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+
+        | [nN][aA][nN]
+        | [iI][nN][fF]
+    )
+
+Examples:
+
+    23
     -2.43
+    3.4e-9
+    0x8f
+    -Inf
+    NaN
 
 ## Time series Selectors