From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Case Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tutorial question re conventions or usage ?? Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:51:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1178049090.3157.43.camel@CASE> References: <1178041458.3157.37.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178049090 24148 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 19:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 01 21:51:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiyNj-0000o2-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:51:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiyU3-0006mT-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiyTq-0006mF-IB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiyTo-0006kh-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiyTn-0006kX-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.78]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HiyNS-00062B-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 48842 invoked from network); 1 May 2007 19:51:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=MY1M/DXdMFDCYvIFl+1mxoB+0VZ3xJfszl8324kB3Xr1vhkEyYPH1J6nkgiCvCsy6eU4s5s6FdFBWj8rNEmTBa0K3Q3TCvl5MIICMQ46cDzj5Tq1FgljhGo/Fom8SqDIMHTLhpI4kTdRcAPvO0skH46jhCR4IZpOcsUyPOlNv58= ; Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (billlinux@rogers.com@74.104.51.86 with plain) by smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 May 2007 19:51:10 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: A1nN1zIVM1kfJ0G0CokksM0sqv9R7m4S5aqlnPqx8s.4ivrq7waN0OCk3Rl1QK9arQ-- In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43451 Archived-At: Thanks Eli On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:31 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: William Case > > Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 13:44:18 -0400 > > [snip] > I think it's more likely that the author wanted to avoid > floating-point arithmetics, and also avoid overflow (as the comment > says). Interpreting the argument as percentage would require > multiplication by 100, which would exacerbate the integer overflow > problem. > > Just a guess. > Just wanted make sure I understood the problem he was trying to solve. -- Regards Bill