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From: Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: bigger integers
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:09:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8jq47el.fsf@phun.phasmic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rotbhc.m6.ln@acm.acm

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

    >> Suggestions on how to make it work for bigger numbers?

    Alan> Why on earth do you want to write a program for a calculation
    Alan> than just about anybody could do in his head?

    Alan> 12! is, of course, 478,002,600.  ;-)

ITYM 479,001,600.

Besides, as has been already mentioned, the calc package does all this
and more.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-04 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1324.1094164438.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-02 23:10 ` bigger integers Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-03  2:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-03 10:20 ` Phillip Lord
2004-09-04  8:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-09-04 11:09   ` Neil Woods [this message]
2004-09-06  0:00 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-17 19:45 ` giacomo boffi
     [not found] <mailman.1438.1094249173.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-03 23:29 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-07 17:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-03 22:00 Joe Corneli
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2004-09-02 22:28 Joe Corneli

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