diff --git a/src/asm/rgbasm.5 b/src/asm/rgbasm.5
index 50209790..2cc00f9c 100644
--- a/src/asm/rgbasm.5
+++ b/src/asm/rgbasm.5
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ There are a number of numeric formats.
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 .El
 .Pp
+Underscores are also accepted in numbers, except at the beginning of decimal ones.
+.Pp
 The "character constant" form yields the value the character maps to in the current charmap.
 For example, by default
 .Pq refer to Xr ascii 7