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x)'S9ytBu8tkt'k779jbzQ4o|p+@H_DCrIdnKG]E*w X-Binford: 6100 (more power) X-Accept-Language: de, en Jabber-ID: torsten.bronger@jabber.rwth-aachen.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mfom4qB9oyb/2i4yCpDUCpCgj3k= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-CrossAssassin-Score: 2 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rzlab.ucr.edu id m8P4nsHC021413 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:49:57 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:20753 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23085 Archived-At: Hall=F6chen! David Hansen writes: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:26:54 -0500 Jay Belanger wrote: > >> David Hansen writes: >> ... >>>>>>From the units table (u v in calc): >>> >>> tsp 492892159375 10^-11 ml Teaspoon >> >> The values are stored that way, instead of as a float, when they are >> exact. > > What exactly is "exact"? It means: the first quantity has exactly this value in terms of the second quantity, with this number of digits, by definition. Tsch=F6, Torsten. --=20 Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: torsten.bronger@jabber.rwth-aachen.de