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From: exushml@exu.ericsson.se (Shyamal Prasad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Floating point arithmetic in ELisp.
Date: 03 Nov 1995 15:41:03 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems
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In-reply-to: jdb@robigo.winternet.com's message of 2 Nov 1995 12:37:00 GMT
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In article <47ae1c$68e@blackice.winternet.com> jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John D. Boggs) writes:
"John" == John D Boggs <jdb@robigo.winternet.com> writes:
John> I am teaching myself LISP using the lisp interaction mode in
John> Emacs, and it doesn't seem to like floating point
John> arithmetic. For instance, the expression (+ 3.14 2.71)
John> returns 5.8499999999999996. I was curious, is this typical
John> of Emacs 19.29, or is it a result of running under
John> FreeBSD-2.0.5-950622-SNAP? I don't foresee needing floating
John> point with what I have in mind, but you never know ...
I get 3.85 on XEmacs 19.13 on SunOS (I'm not sure what version).
Sorry, can't help more.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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