From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
Subject: Re: bigger integers
Date: 03 Sep 2004 23:29:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87656vgcco.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1438.1094249173.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
> After all, emacs lisp is designed to count characters in a file,
> not to compute factorials.
>
> "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
> display editor."
>
> If I can't extend or customize it to compute 12! then there seems to
> be something missing. Kevin's factorial works though so I guess
> that's good enough for me... oh wait a second now it stopped working.
Oh yes, it IS extensible and customizable.
The question is: is it worth the effort to extend and customize it?
And what does 12! have to do with editing files anyway?
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we.
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2004-09-03 23:29 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2004-09-07 17:46 ` bigger integers Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-03 22:00 Joe Corneli
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2004-09-02 23:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-03 2:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-03 10:20 ` Phillip Lord
2004-09-04 8:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-09-04 11:09 ` Neil Woods
2004-09-06 0:00 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-17 19:45 ` giacomo boffi
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2004-09-02 22:28 Joe Corneli
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