# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1166565987 0 # Node ID 9f61fd8f103cf62e8340657b183addf80fdbe49b # Parent 1b8ea6fcd26742077be9e9ddc555bd3479920fda (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs now does have floating point. diff -r 1b8ea6fcd267 -r 9f61fd8f103c man/calc.texi --- a/man/calc.texi Tue Dec 19 19:48:48 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/calc.texi Tue Dec 19 22:06:27 2006 +0000 @@ -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