From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Calculator: no exponent, full number ? Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:23:54 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20190604154307.565d33cf@mistral> <87zhmwzn67.fsf@mbork.pl> <865zp82bsb.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16027"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 15 11:24:29 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hc4vD-00040c-FN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:24:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hc4vC-0007Jf-Hv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hc4v3-0007JL-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:24:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hc4v2-0007wI-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:24:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38814 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hc4v2-0007uq-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:24:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hc4uz-0003mY-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:24:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:3BNZDvVqObIeh5h8enP+UegEozU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120960 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs writes: > Van L wrote: > >> Emacs-27's calc does bignum. > > Is there a paleo-techno-scientific definition > of "bignum" or is it just short for > a big numbers? It is a shorthand or contraction or telescope-collapsing-fold like calc is to calculation or calculator, saving time and space. -- © 2019 VanL gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 'The mouth is the dirtiest part on the human body.' - Bill Wallace