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| author | Richard M. Stallman | 2006-12-19 22:06:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman | 2006-12-19 22:06:32 +0000 |
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(History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs
now does have floating point.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
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| 1 | 2006-12-19 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | * calc.texi (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs | ||
| 4 | now does have floating point. | ||
| 5 | |||
| 1 | 2006-12-19 Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> | 6 | 2006-12-19 Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> |
| 2 | 7 | ||
| 3 | * major.texi (Choosing Modes): Describe match-function elements for | 8 | * major.texi (Choosing Modes): Describe match-function elements for |
diff --git a/man/calc.texi b/man/calc.texi index 6f3082fb776..d38becd46d9 100644 --- a/man/calc.texi +++ b/man/calc.texi | |||
| @@ -1539,7 +1539,8 @@ To make a long story short, Emacs Lisp turned out to be a distressingly | |||
| 1539 | solid implementation of Lisp, and the humble task of calculating | 1539 | solid implementation of Lisp, and the humble task of calculating |
| 1540 | turned out to be more open-ended than one might have expected. | 1540 | turned out to be more open-ended than one might have expected. |
| 1541 | 1541 | ||
| 1542 | Emacs Lisp doesn't have built-in floating point math, so it had to be | 1542 | Emacs Lisp didn't have built-in floating point math (now it does), so |
| 1543 | this had to be | ||
| 1543 | simulated in software. In fact, Emacs integers will only comfortably | 1544 | simulated in software. In fact, Emacs integers will only comfortably |
| 1544 | fit six decimal digits or so---not enough for a decent calculator. So | 1545 | fit six decimal digits or so---not enough for a decent calculator. So |
| 1545 | I had to write my own high-precision integer code as well, and once I had | 1546 | I had to write my own high-precision integer code as well, and once I had |