From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:06:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.93~544 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d99ccfc828675a2e4c14c8fa02797cd3f01c472c;p=emacs.git (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs now does have floating point. --- diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index 96f88717e5c..32836432ddf 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-12-19 Richard Stallman + + * calc.texi (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs + now does have floating point. + 2006-12-19 Kim F. Storm * 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 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