From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:47:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu1x0wqb.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h6y1o0xq.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> Emacs can still do that:
>>
>> (let ((integer-width 200000))
>> (substring (number-to-string (expt 10001 10000)) 0 4))
>> => "2718"
>
> Indeed:
>
> (let ((integer-width 20000000))
> (substring (number-to-string (expt 1000001 1000000)) 0 6))
> ==> 271828
>
> 6 digits from e. But there it starts to take some time.
So how big an integer can you put into `integer-width'?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 19:09 The next exercise Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 19:42 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 2:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 6:18 ` tomas
2022-12-10 7:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 19:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 19:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 20:19 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 20:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-12 1:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-15 22:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 23:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-16 1:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-17 0:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-18 0:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-20 4:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-11 19:48 ` Andy Moreton
2022-12-12 1:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 10:47 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-12-10 2:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 20:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 21:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
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