Re: Floating point in Emacs Lisp

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From: Dave Sill
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 13:22

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In article <21029@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
>
>I need to know went floating point operations will be available in
>some version of emacs. There is some mention of such in 19. But if
>there will be 'prototype' implementations earlier I would like to
>get it. There is a 'hack' called 'float.el' but I think I need
>something that is more usable.

How about:

flonums           87-10-27
     W. Rupprecht, <wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu>
     mgm.mit.edu:/pub/WOLFGANG/float-emacs.diff
     True floating point data type for Lisp.

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