From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:06:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/1%29.2+1-2+rpi1~1^2~3315 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:///%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c4ee2ee7a5dd69560c309943c48637b473b4685b;p=emacs.git (History and Acknowledgements): Recognize that Emacs now does have floating point. --- 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