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'.
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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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