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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/calc.texi,v
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Richard M. Stallman |
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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/calc.texi,v |
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Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:06:28 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 06/12/19 22:06:27
Index: calc.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/man/calc.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.87
retrieving revision 1.88
diff -u -b -r1.87 -r1.88
--- calc.texi 15 Sep 2006 17:44:51 -0000 1.87
+++ calc.texi 19 Dec 2006 22:06:27 -0000 1.88
@@ -1539,7 +1539,8 @@
solid implementation of Lisp, and the humble task of calculating
turned out to be more open-ended than one might have expected.
-Emacs Lisp doesn't have built-in floating point math, so it had to be
+Emacs Lisp didn't have built-in floating point math (now it does), so
+this had to be
simulated in software. In fact, Emacs integers will only comfortably
fit six decimal digits or so---not enough for a decent calculator. So
I had to write my own high-precision integer code as well, and once I had
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