Mercurial > emacs
changeset 36987:3a9bdf46b7db
Floating point is always available; say a little about what it is.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 03:17:58 +0000 |
| parents | a206784e7db9 |
| children | c904b89720f8 |
| files | lispref/objects.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/objects.texi Mon Mar 26 03:14:34 2001 +0000 +++ b/lispref/objects.texi Mon Mar 26 03:17:58 2001 +0000 @@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ @node Floating Point Type @subsection Floating Point Type - Emacs supports floating point numbers (though there is a compilation -option to disable them). The precise range of floating point numbers is -machine-specific. + Floating point numbers are the computer equivalent of scientific +notation. The precise number of significant figures and the range of +possible exponents is machine-specific; Emacs always uses the C data +type @code{double} to store the value. The printed representation for floating point numbers requires either a decimal point (with at least one digit following), an exponent, or