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From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calculator: no exponent, full number ?
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:23:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m236kb19sl.fsf@scratch.space> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 865zp82bsb.fsf@zoho.eu

Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Van L wrote:
>
>> Emacs-27's calc does bignum.
>
> Is there a paleo-techno-scientific definition
> of "bignum" or is it just short for
> a big numbers?

It is a shorthand or contraction or
telescope-collapsing-fold like calc is to calculation or
calculator, saving time and space.



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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-15  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 19:43 Calculator: no exponent, full number ? jonetsu
2019-06-04 22:42 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-05 11:15   ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-05  4:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-05  4:26   ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-05 13:53   ` jonetsu
2019-06-05 23:47     ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-06 14:50       ` Nick Dokos
2019-06-26  4:09         ` Xavier Maillard
2019-06-06 15:47       ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-06 16:50         ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-06 17:04           ` tomas
2019-06-06 17:11             ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-06 17:25               ` tomas
2019-06-07 19:36           ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-14 12:20   ` Van L
2019-06-14 13:26     ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-14 19:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-15  9:29       ` Van L
2019-06-14 19:43     ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-15  9:23       ` Van L [this message]
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2019-06-06 17:28 Joe Trivers via help-gnu-emacs

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