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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: e
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:59:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43a9101f-f1b3-4203-be56-b5a7ddcab6f7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B95C731A-1DED-4E33-BB5A-90B64B8DA464@gmail.com>

> >> I was under the impression that e evaluated to 2.71828 or something in
> >> Emacs.
> >
> > It's called float-e.
> 
> yes, but I was doing tests in ielm and I'm pretty sure I did not type float-
> e. It was clearly e, and after seeing e evaluated, I tried pi (which worked
> then and works still).

Your memory is correct.  This was changed in Emacs 24.  In Emacs 23 and prior,
`e' is a predefined "constant".  This is now called `float-e'.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-29 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-29 10:03 e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-10-29 10:09 ` e Andreas Schwab
2015-10-29 10:20   ` e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-10-29 13:58     ` e Random832
2015-10-29 22:23       ` e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-10-31  5:32         ` e Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-31  5:58           ` e Random832
2015-10-31  7:40           ` e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-11-01  1:38           ` e Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-01  4:29             ` e Random832
2015-10-29 13:59     ` Drew Adams [this message]

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