From: Joe Trivers via help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Calculator: no exponent, full number ?
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 17:28:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BN6P102MB006890076F7E51EE15B9822FEE170@BN6P102MB0068.NAMP102.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
> From: Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
> Sent: 6 June, 2019 1:11 PM
>tomas wrote:
>> Newer Emacsen support bignums:
. . .
>> That said, calc itself supports bignums
>> since long.
>OK, but how could it, if Emacs didn't?
By implementing its own number representations and arithmetic library in Elisp.
From nearly 30 years ago.
See calc-arith.el by David Gillespie. A _very_ impressive piece of work.
I don't understand it at all.
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2019-06-06 17:28 Joe Trivers via help-gnu-emacs [this message]
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2019-06-04 19:43 Calculator: no exponent, full number ? jonetsu
2019-06-04 22:42 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-05 11:15 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-05 4:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-05 4:26 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-05 13:53 ` jonetsu
2019-06-05 23:47 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-06 14:50 ` Nick Dokos
2019-06-26 4:09 ` Xavier Maillard
2019-06-06 15:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-06 16:50 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-06 17:04 ` tomas
2019-06-06 17:11 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-06 17:25 ` tomas
2019-06-07 19:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-14 12:20 ` Van L
2019-06-14 13:26 ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-14 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-15 9:29 ` Van L
2019-06-14 19:43 ` Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-15 9:23 ` Van L
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