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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, David Sitsky <david.sitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: 30408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30408: 24.5; (format "%x" large-number) produces incorrect results
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:56:32 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <856eb7d4-ed47-4a5c-8747-6334ab37638a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60284cf8-d1b4-a1c6-5d06-a21a7085c89c@cs.ucla.edu>

> > I wonder why Emacs Lisp doesn't support bignums by default, so
> > precision would not be an issue?
> 
> Nobody has gotten around to implementing it. It'd be nice if someone did.
> It is a wishlist item, so I'll mark this bug report as wishlist priority.

It's probably a duplicate bug.  This has been requested
in the past - perhaps more than once.  And there has
been some discussion of it.  I don't have a reference,
however.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-10  6:22 bug#30408: 24.5; (format "%x" large-number) produces incorrect results David Sitsky
2018-02-12  2:49 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12  4:56   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-02-18  1:08     ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-06  6:29 ` bug#30408: More context in `read-integer-overflow-as-float'? Bastien

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