From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 73817@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73817: 29.4; Docstring for math-approx-sqrt-e is wrong
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:07:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wmi9qzuf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uttddv9v2@gentoo.org> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:17:21 +0200)
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:17:21 +0200
>
> math-approx-sqrt-e is a variable defined in ‘calc-ext.el’.
>
> Its value is (float 1648721270700128146849 -21)
>
> An approximation for sqrt(3).
>
> This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
>
>
> Obviously this should be sqrt(e) = 1.648..., whereas sqrt(3) = 1.732...
>
> OK to push attached patch to the emacs-30 branch, or should it go to
> master?
Please install on emacs-30 (documentation changes are always okay on
the release branch).
Thanks.
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2024-10-15 12:17 bug#73817: 29.4; Docstring for math-approx-sqrt-e is wrong Ulrich Mueller
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