From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: view/edit large files
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:46:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bptajw7s.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u1vu6zday.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> "floats" can exactly represent integers if the integer quantity fits
>> within the mantissa.
>
> On second thought, I don't think I agree. For example an integer
> number as small and "simple" as 5 does not have an exact
> representation as an IEEE floating-point number, right?
Yes, it does. All integers which fit into the mantissa (plus some
others) are exactly representable.
-Miles
--
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 17:20 map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 18:54 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 19:22 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 19:52 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-02 20:54 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 22:42 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 13:57 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 22:41 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 23:59 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-03 4:13 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 7:27 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-03 14:50 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 7:04 ` map-file-lines Richard M Stallman
2009-02-04 15:38 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-05 5:40 ` map-file-lines Richard M Stallman
2009-02-06 18:42 ` view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-06 21:06 ` view/edit large files Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-06 21:49 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <864oz3nyj8.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2009-02-10 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-10 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 9:23 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-10 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 10:02 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-10 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-17 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-17 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 20:18 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-17 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 21:19 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-17 21:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-18 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-18 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-20 19:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-10 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 12:46 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-02-07 9:14 ` view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) Richard M Stallman
2009-02-09 20:26 ` view/edit large files Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-10 20:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-06 13:20 ` map-file-lines Mathias Dahl
2009-02-02 22:40 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 4:11 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 20:48 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 8:08 ` map-file-lines Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-02-03 14:00 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 14:17 ` map-file-lines Miles Bader
2009-02-03 10:45 ` map-file-lines Thierry Volpiatto
2009-02-03 14:06 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 14:56 ` map-file-lines Thierry Volpiatto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-07 3:44 view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) MON KEY
2009-02-08 4:34 ` Bob Rogers
2009-02-09 19:44 ` view/edit large files Thien-Thi Nguyen
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