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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: program to compute gears, with table
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 13:27:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170908112750.GA23994@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5UxUa4GvMQPXh8iimyDkgFfDs_rPfe_GQXmLFX+JrcP_Nw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 06:09:30AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:

[...]

> * Why the 1.0 divisor when computing gear?

because...

  (/ 2 3)     => 0
  (/ 2 3 1.0) => 0.6666666666666666

(division defaults to integer division when all args are int)

As to the rest... I'll defer to Emmanuel :-)

Cheers
- -- t
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08  5:33 program to compute gears, with table Emanuel Berg
2017-09-08  8:46 ` Graham
2017-09-08 15:50   ` Frank Krygowski
2017-09-08 21:56     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-08 17:44   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-08 11:09 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-09-08 11:27   ` tomas [this message]
2017-09-08 12:12     ` Skip Montanaro
2017-09-08 17:09 ` David Scheidt
2017-09-08 23:45   ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <mailman.158.1504868984.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-08 17:52   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-08 19:56     ` Joerg
2017-09-08 19:59       ` David Scheidt
2017-09-08 23:55         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-09 19:17         ` Joerg
2017-09-09 19:46           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10  2:06           ` David Scheidt
2017-09-10 14:59             ` Joerg
2017-09-23  5:42             ` DougC
2017-09-23  6:41               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24  1:05               ` Joy Beeson
2017-09-11  5:02         ` Tosspot
2017-09-11  5:19           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-08 23:51       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-09 21:08       ` Tomas Nordin
2017-09-14 12:24       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-14 19:33         ` Tomas Nordin
2017-09-14 20:51           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-14 23:49           ` Nick Helm

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