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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:28:36 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Yes, I will do that.  Thanks.

Uh, I already changed it to "positive number", as Ken suggested.

> It is possible that this existed before floating point was standardly
> enabled in Emacs.

Then perhaps we should remove it. It is apparently not used anywhere and
has a strange interface: how many times will anyone need to take a
current-time, remove its microseconds and add it another microsecond
count, and *then* use that to set a timer? ;-)


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