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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calculator: no exponent, full number ?
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 19:25:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606172516.GB19929@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r286oczz.fsf@zoho.eu>

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On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 07:11:12PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs wrote:
> tomas wrote:
> 
> > Newer Emacsen support bignums:
> >
> > (expt 71 71) =>
> > 275006373483461607657434076627252658495183350017755660813753981774508905998081919405140568848353397233796618192645698819765129996471
> 
> (expt 71 71) ; -141793097
> 
> > That said, calc itself supports bignums
> > since long.
> 
> OK, but how could it, if Emacs didn't?

Well, it can do fractions too. And symbolic expressions. Although they
arent native to elisp. Magic :-)

See calc.el, especially below this comment:

  ;;;; Arithmetic routines.

for a beginning of a long and exciting journey.

Cheers
-- t

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06 17:25 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 [this message]
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
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2019-06-06 17:28 Joe Trivers via help-gnu-emacs

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