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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: percent-change
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 18:04:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg68w73s.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8XQ3p4k=rzJWT8J1+K_DcADorLMyKofBEekkvKyi9M_8w@mail.gmail.com

Yuri Khan wrote:

>> Take a look at this, see examples for intended bahvior.
>> This was more difficult than I imagined, maybe there is
>> some simpler way to do it?
>
>     (defun yk-percent-change (from to)
>       (if (= from to)
>           0
>         (/ (- to from) (abs from) 0.01)))

But how/why does that work if 'from' is 0?

(/ 1 0 0.01) ; 1.0e+INF

What does that mean?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-13 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-11 13:35 percent-change Emanuel Berg
2023-05-13 13:37 ` percent-change Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-05-13 14:00   ` percent-change Emanuel Berg
2023-05-13 14:06   ` percent-change Emanuel Berg
2023-05-13 15:16 ` percent-change Yuri Khan
2023-05-13 15:58   ` percent-change Emanuel Berg
2023-05-13 16:04   ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2023-05-14 14:29     ` percent-change Yuri Khan
2023-05-15  2:54       ` percent-change Emanuel Berg

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