From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:24:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83sh3znzj8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> <49d8ba62-c9a5-9203-d882-8e900b441ff3@cs.ucla.edu> <8e0320d9-e0d0-2b57-57cc-2df4399f133c@cs.ucla.edu> > <<87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> > <<877em1cb0i.fsf@tromey.com> <765767b2-d2e5-a9a6-f724-d58ecf4847bb@cs.ucla.edu> <76081b5d-8c10-0a37-2c97-d4864c0faa80@cs.ucla.edu> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83600yt8ih.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8kgpnir.fsf@gnu.org> <7dd71d44-69bc-3adf-576b-8b9e31184a24@cs.ucla.edu>> <<83d0v4p1si.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533054213 31870 195.159.176.226 (31 Jul 2018 16:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 18:23:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkXQh-00086R-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkXSn-00028c-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkXSA-00028W-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkXS6-0000sf-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkXS6-0000sa-3Z; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2062 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fkXS5-00014r-IT; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:24:49 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:08:20 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228052 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:08:20 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > What indications are there that many uses of floats involve round numbers? I think that's because most float values we have in our sources are round (in their binary representation). Values like 1.0 and 0.5, for example (but not 0.1).