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From: jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John D. Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Floating point arithmetic in ELisp.
Date: 2 Nov 1995 12:37:00 GMT
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I am teaching myself LISP using the lisp interaction mode in Emacs,
and it doesn't seem to like floating point arithmetic. For instance,
the expression (+ 3.14 2.71) returns 5.8499999999999996. I was
curious, is this typical of Emacs 19.29, or is it a result of running
under FreeBSD-2.0.5-950622-SNAP? I don't foresee needing floating
point with what I have in mind, but you never know ...
--
John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is
jdb@robigo.winternet.com \ that it prevents us from sticking to
\ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas