Mercurial > emacs
changeset 74761:9f61fd8f103c
(History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs
now does have floating point.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:06:27 +0000 |
| parents | 1b8ea6fcd267 |
| children | d06dcabaded2 |
| files | man/calc.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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